U.S.-Cuba sign torrent of agreements under the inauguration wire
U.S.-Cuba sign torrent of agreements under the inauguration wire
By Karen DeYoung January 18 at 6:58 PM
The United States and Cuba on Wednesday signed a treaty delineating their maritime boundary in the eastern Gulf of Mexico amid a torrent of last-minute negotiations between the two governments in the outgoing days of the Obama administration.
In the past two weeks, Washington and Havana also inked agreements on joint responses to potential oil spills and other pollution in the gulf and the Florida Straits; cooperation on law enforcement and information sharing; and maritime and aeronautical search and rescue.
Teams from the two governments also held their third meeting on outstanding monetary and property claims and held discussions about cooperation on human trafficking.
Last week, Obama unilaterally eliminated special preferences for Cubans seeking admission to the United States, including the 20-year-old “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy that automatically allowed any Cuban reaching U.S. soil to stay and be given near-automatic approval for permanent residence.
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