• Submitted by: Juana
• Havana
• United States
• Personalities
• Politics and Government
• 07 / 16 / 2015

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Last Wednesday, Raul Castro asked his US counterpart Barack Obama to continue using executive orders to "dismantle" aspects of the economic embargo, the main stumbling block in the "normalization" of relations between the two countries.
"We hope (Obama) continue to use his executive powers to dismantle aspects of this policy, causing damage and hardship to our people," Castro said at the close of the first annual parliamentary session, reports AFP news agency.
Castro reiterated his conditions for "normalizing relations": remove the embargo, the return of the territory of Guantanamo Bay, the cessation of radio and television broadcasts from the United States towards Cuba and the elimination of destabilization programs, among others.

source: www.cibercuba.com