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U.S. lawmakers met with Cuba’s foreign minister and laid flowers at a Havana memorial to civil rights leader Martin Luther King during a visit aimed at improving relations with the communist nation.
The delegation is the first from the United States since President Obama took office in January. Congress is preparing to consider bills lifting most restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba.
A White House official confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that Obama would abolish limits on family travel and cash remittances between the United States and Cuba, but the official said the move was not a policy shift or imminent.
Obama promised during his presidential campaign to lift the restrictions.
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