WASHINGTON: As President-elect Donald Trump threatened to "terminate" the detente policy with Cuba, the White House on Tuesday warned that reversing historic rapprochement would have "significant" diplomatic, economic and cultural costs.
The policy is considered as one of the foreign policy legacies of outgoing President Barack Obama.
Trump on Monday threatened in a tweet to put an end to the detente policy.
"If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the US as a whole, I will terminate deal," Trump said in a tweet.
Trump's tweet landed just as Cuba began its week-long farewell to its former leader Fidel Castro.
The White House, however, was quick to warn that there are costs involved for cancelling such an agreement with Cuba, under which the two countries not only reestablished their diplomatic relationship after decades, but also resumed flights and lifted several sanctions.
Source:-timesofindia
The policy is considered as one of the foreign policy legacies of outgoing President Barack Obama.
Trump on Monday threatened in a tweet to put an end to the detente policy.
"If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the US as a whole, I will terminate deal," Trump said in a tweet.
Trump's tweet landed just as Cuba began its week-long farewell to its former leader Fidel Castro.
The White House, however, was quick to warn that there are costs involved for cancelling such an agreement with Cuba, under which the two countries not only reestablished their diplomatic relationship after decades, but also resumed flights and lifted several sanctions.
Source:-timesofindia
