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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

(Newser) – 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.

A school boy walks past classic cars in Havana yesterday. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

A woman walks by a sign that reads in Spanish "Revolution" as an electric plant smokes in the background in Havana yesterday. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, center, raises his arm while Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya, left, and Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo smile at the OAS General Assembly in Honduras. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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