Cuba Rejects OAS Membership

Cuba calls decision to revoke suspension 'a major victory' but won't rejoin
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 5, 2009 6:08 AM CDT
Cuba Rejects OAS Membership
A school boy walks past classic cars in Havana yesterday.   (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

Cuba has decided not to rejoin the Organization of American States despite the group lifting the country's 47-year suspension, the Voice of America reports. Cuba's parliament leader called the decision to lift the ban "a major victory," but said Cuba hasn't changed its thinking on the group and still considers it to be working for US interests at the expense of Latin American and Caribbean states.
(More Organization of American States stories.)

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