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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Obama lifts curbs on Cuban money moves, visits AFP - Tuesday, April 14 WASHINGTON (AFP) - - US President Barack Obama made a landmark gesture to communist Cuba, lifting all curbs on travel and money transfers by Cuban-Americans to the island for the first time in three decades. ADVERTISEMENT The White House said the move was intended to encourage expanding democratic and political rights in Cuba and called on Havana to respond in kind to help ease decades of fierce antipathy between the bitter foes. But the move left a longstanding US trade embargo largely intact, with the White House saying it was up to the Cuban government whether Obama's steps , which were in line with his campaign promises, would result in a thawing of chilled relations between the two sides. "President Obama has directed that a series of steps be taken to reach out to the Cuban people to support their desire to enjoy basic human rights and to freely determine their country's future," presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs said at the first bilingual press conference given at the White House. "The president has directed the secretaries of state, treasury and commerce to carry out the actions necessary to lift all restrictions on the ability of individuals to visit family members in Cuba and to send them remittances." In terms of improving the strained ties, "in many ways that depends on the actions of the Cuban government," Gibbs said. "The president would like to see greater freedom for the Cuban people.... There are actions that he can and has taken today to open up the flow of information to provide some important steps to help that. But he's not the only person in this equation." Specifically, the White House called on Cuba to reduce charges it levies on money transfers to family members. An estimated 1.5 million US residents of Cuban descent still have relatives in Cuba, and the question of how to deal with the Castro government has long been an emotional one for the Cuban exile community here. And the 47-year-old US economic embargo on Cuba will not be immediately lifted. But Obama will find support for a new US policy toward Cuba this week when he meets with leaders from around the western hemisphere at a summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago. "If President Obama is serious about promoting change in Cuba, this executive order must be part of a larger shift away from the US's unilateral approach toward the Cuban government," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. "Only by working with its allies in Latin American and Europe will the US be able to chip away at Castro's repressive machinery." Dan Restrepo, a special assistant to Obama for western hemisphere affairs, held out the prospect of future changes in the US strategy to Cuba . "US policy towards Cuba is not frozen in time," he said, in a briefing conducted both in English and Spanish. But Obama's order would open a wide array of telecommunications links to the island, after decades of antipathy between Washington and Havana. It would allow US telecommunications network providers to link to Cuba with fiber-optic cables and satellite technology and permit US wireless telephone providers to enter roaming service agreements with Cuban firms. It would also permit US satellite broadcasts to the island. "All who embrace core democratic values long for a Cuba that respects the basic human, political and economic rights of all of its citizens," Gibbs said. "President Obama believes the measure he has taken today will help make that goal a reality. He encourages all who share it to continue their steadfast support for the Cuban people." The administration's actions won applause in US farm states hoping to gain a new markets for their agricultural products. "We should also immediately eliminate the roadblocks that the Bush administration put in place to make it harder for farmers to sell food to Cuba," said Senator Byron Dorgan, a Democrat from North Dakota. "I also believe the embargo should be ended. When a policy has failed for nearly 50 years, it is time to change the policy." The Cuban-American community welcomed the US move, saying it could elicit an opening by the communist regime. "Let's hope now the Raul Castro regime will be pressed to lift its own restrictions on Cubans wanting to travel to the island who now need a visa or entry permit," Miami-based Cuban Democratic Directorate leader Orlando Gutierrez told AFP. 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