US congressmen on trade mission to Cuba
Sunday, February 8, 2004
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Two US congressmen from the western state of Idaho signed a 10-million-dollar farm contract with the Cuban state company Alimport here Saturday and made a pitch for the lifting of Washington's four-decade embargo on the communist island state.
Senator Larry Craig and Representative Butch Otter, both Republicans, said the agreement, which becomes effective in April, was signed by Alimport president Pedro Alvarez in a ceremony at Havana's Hemmingway Museum.
Craig and Otter are part of a US bipartisan congressional delegation pushing for a lifting of the embargo imposed on Cuba by the administration of the late president John F. Kennedy after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
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