22 U.S.C. § 6061 — Policy toward transition government and democratically elected government in Cuba
submitted 30 years ago by Pub. L. 104-114 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 483 words · no verdicts yet
The United States policy is to support the Cuban people’s self-determination and a peaceful move to representative democracy and a market economy. It also describes assistance, cooperation, military adjustment, diplomatic, trade, and embargo goals.
The policy of the United States is: (1) to support the Cuban people’s self-determination; (2) to recognize that this is a sovereign national right of Cuba’s citizens, to be exercised without interference by another country’s government; (3) to encourage a government reflecting that self-determination; (4) to recognize that the Castro regime’s refusal of substantial political or economic reform may make the transition difficult and to be ready to provide humanitarian, development, and other economic assistance; (5) in solidarity with the Cuban people, to assist (A) a transition government, (B) its rapid movement to a democratically elected government resulting from the people’s self-determination, and (C) that elected government; (6) through assistance, to facilitate peaceful representative democracy and a market economy and consolidate democracy; (7) to deliver assistance only through a transition or democratically elected government, United States Government organizations, or United States, international, or Cuban nongovernmental organizations; (8) to encourage other countries and multilateral organizations to give similar assistance and coordinate it; (9) to ensure rapid, appropriate assistance after a transition government begins; (10) not to give favorable treatment or influence for any person* or entity in the Cuban people’s choice of future government; (11) to help both governments prepare Cuban military forces for an appropriate democratic role; (12) to be ready to negotiate with an elected government about returning the Guantanamo naval base or renegotiating the current agreement; (13) to consider restoring diplomatic recognition and supporting Cuba’s return to Inter-American organizations when the President determines an elected government exists; (14) to take steps to remove the economic embargo when the President determines the transition to such a government has begun; (15) to help an elected government strengthen and stabilize its currency; and (16) to pursue trade relations with a free, democratic, independent Cuba.
The policy of the United States is as follows:
To support the self-determination of the Cuban people.
To recognize that the self-determination of the Cuban people is a sovereign and national right of the citizens of Cuba which must be exercised free of interference by the government of any other country.
To encourage the Cuban people to empower themselves with a government which reflects the self-determination of the Cuban people.
To recognize the potential for a difficult transition from the current regime in Cuba that may result from the initiatives taken by the Cuban people for self-determination in response to the intransigence of the Castro regime in not allowing any substantive political or economic reforms, and to be prepared to provide the Cuban people with humanitarian, developmental, and other economic assistance.
In solidarity with the Cuban people, to provide appropriate forms of assistance—
to a transition government in Cuba*;
to facilitate the rapid movement from such a transition government to a democratically elected government in Cuba* that results from an expression of the self-determination of the Cuban people; and
to support such a democratically elected government.
Through such assistance, to facilitate a peaceful transition to representative democracy and a market economy in Cuba and to consolidate democracy in Cuba.
To deliver such assistance to the Cuban people only through a transition government in Cuba, through a democratically elected government in Cuba, through United States Government organizations, or through United States, international, or indigenous nongovernmental organizations.
To encourage other countries and multilateral organizations to provide similar assistance, and to work cooperatively with such countries and organizations to coordinate such assistance.
To ensure that appropriate assistance is rapidly provided and distributed to the people of Cuba upon the institution of a transition government in Cuba.
Not to provide favorable treatment or influence on behalf of any individual or entity in the selection by the Cuban people of their future government.
To assist a transition government in Cuba and a democratically elected government in Cuba to prepare the Cuban military forces for an appropriate role in a democracy.
To be prepared to enter into negotiations with a democratically elected government in Cuba either to return the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo to Cuba or to renegotiate the present agreement under mutually agreeable terms.
To consider the restoration of diplomatic recognition and support the reintegration of the Cuban Government* into Inter-American organizations when the President determines that there exists a democratically elected government in Cuba.
To take steps to remove the economic embargo of Cuba when the President determines that a transition to a democratically elected government in Cuba has begun.
To assist a democratically elected government in Cuba to strengthen and stabilize its national currency.
To pursue trade relations with a free, democratic, and independent Cuba.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 104–114, title II, § 201, Mar. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 805.)
- 1996Enacted · Pub. L. 104-114 · 110 Stat. 805
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