US formally drops Cuba from terrorism 'blacklist'

May 30, 2015 03:05

The United States has formally dropped Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, the US State Department has announced, adding a symbolic punctuation mark to the talks that aim to end decades of antagonism.

The removal of Cuba from the US terrorism list eliminates an obstacle to restoring diplomatic ties between the countries after a 50-year estrangement. Cuban diplomats had urged rescission as a condition of normalising relations, alongside the restoration of bank services for Cubans in the US.

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