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Castro urges Obama to act on blockade

CUBAN President Raul Castro met his US counterpart Barack Obama on the fringes of the UN general assembly on Tuesday to discuss detente between their two countries.

Following the private meeting, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that speeding up the process would require Mr Obama to use his executive authority to substantially modify his country’s 50-year blockade on Cuba.

Mr Rodriguez said that actions Mr Obama had taken so far have had “a very limited value, a very limited scope and do not deal with any significant aspects when it comes to the implementation of the blockade against Cuba.”

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