§6061 Policy toward transition government and democratically elected government in Cuba

Summary

The United States must support the Cuban people's right to choose their own government without outside interference. The United States will encourage Cubans to form a government that reflects their wishes. The government must be ready to give humanitarian and economic help to a transition government and to a democratically elected government. That help is meant to speed a peaceful move to representative democracy and a market economy and to strengthen democracy in Cuba. Aid must be given only through a transition or democratically elected Cuban government, U.S. government agencies, or U.S., international, or Cuban nongovernmental groups. The United States will urge other countries and organizations to help and coordinate. Aid should be sent quickly once a transition government exists, and the U.S. must not try to pick Cuba’s leaders. The U.S. will help train Cuban military forces for democratic roles, be ready to negotiate the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo’s return or new terms, consider restoring diplomatic ties and rejoining Inter-American organizations when the President finds a democratically elected government exists, take steps to lift the economic embargo when the President finds a transition has begun, help stabilize Cuba’s currency, and pursue trade with a free, democratic, independent Cuba.