(VOVworld) – During his brief trip to Jamaica, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the US State Department has completed its review of Cuba as a state of state sponsors of terrorism, but an official decision to remove the designation has not yet been made.
President Obama and Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller meet Thursday in Kingston, Jamaica, where Obama said he soon will decide whether to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
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Ben Rhodes, President Obama's deputy national security advisor, said Obama might remove Cuba from the list before the 7
th American Summit, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, in Panama.