§ 6061. — Policy toward transition government and democratically elected government in Cuba.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC6061]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 69A--CUBAN LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC SOLIDARITY (LIBERTAD)
SUBCHAPTER II--ASSISTANCE TO FREE AND INDEPENDENT CUBA
Sec. 6061. Policy toward transition government and
democratically elected government in Cuba
The policy of the United States is as follows:
(1) To support the self-determination of the Cuban people.
(2) 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.
(3) To encourage the Cuban people to empower themselves with a
government which reflects the self-determination of the Cuban
people.
(4) 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.
(5) In solidarity with the Cuban people, to provide appropriate
forms of assistance--
(A) to a transition government in Cuba;
(B) 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
(C) to support such a democratically elected government.
(6) Through such assistance, to facilitate a peaceful transition
to representative democracy and a market economy in Cuba and to
consolidate democracy in Cuba.
(7) 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.
(8) To encourage other countries and multilateral organizations
to provide similar assistance, and to work cooperatively with such
countries and organizations to coordinate such assistance.
(9) To ensure that appropriate assistance is rapidly provided
and distributed to the people of Cuba upon the institution of a
transition government in Cuba.
(10) 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.
(11) 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.
(12) 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.
(13) 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.
(14) 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.
(15) To assist a democratically elected government in Cuba to
strengthen and stabilize its national currency.
(16) To pursue trade relations with a free, democratic, and
independent Cuba.
(Pub. L. 104-114, title II, Sec. 201, Mar. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 805.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 6062 of this title.
