EUROPEAN UNION WANTS USA TO CONTINUE SUSPENDING PARTS OF HELMS-
BURTON LAW
Brussels, March 5 (RHC)-- The European Union is planning this week to
call on the U.S. government to continue refraining from applying the
anti-Cuba Helms-Burton Law to European firms doing business in Cuba.
According to press reports, a high-level EU delegation is expected to
soon meet with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
A source from the European Commission told reporters that the EU
delegation will remind Washington that it decided to deactivate a
World Trade Organization panel against the extraterritorial nature of
the Helms-Burton Law in 1998.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton maintained last January a ban
on application of Titles 3 and 4 in the anti-Cuba legislation, which
would also allow any U.S. citizen to file legal complaints against
firms using property belonging to that citizen that was nationalized
by the Cuban Revolution -- even Cuban-Americans who acquired their
citizenship after the triumph of the Revolution.
Next June, President George W. Bush will be faced with the decision
of whether to continue maintaining a ban on the application of these
articles every six months, as did Clinton.
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