US to Return Gitmo to Cuba, Transition Period Needed – Ex-Defense Official
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US to Return Gitmo to Cuba, Transition Period Needed – Ex-Defense Official
19:10 24.07.2015(updated 19:39 24.07.2015)
The United States will eventually return Guantanamo Bay base to Cuba as part of the normalization of relations, but a transition period of up to 10 years may be needed, a former senior defense official during the Reagan administration, Lawrence Korb, told Sputnik on Friday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — On Monday, Washington and Havana officially reestablished full diplomatic relations and reopened embassies after over half a century of animosity.
"Relations are going to be normalized; it is just a question of how long it will take… You are not going to undo 50-60 years of problems overnight, but the key thing is that we are moving in the right direction," Lawrence Korb said.
Korb cited an example of the US-China reset, which took around eight years after the first steps toward normalization by President Richard Nixon in 1971 until relations were completely restored under Jimmy Carter.
The United States closed its embassy in Havana in 1961, severing diplomatic ties with the island nation after a Socialist government came to power and allied itself with the former Soviet Union. Washington kept an unofficial Interests Section presence in the country during that time.
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