Cuban soldiers on military exercises near Guantanamo Bay and the U.S. military black site location accused by human rights groups around the world of committing very serious human rights abuses, including torture and indefinite detention of human beings, accused but not tried of terrorism charges – in violation of international human rights and the Geneva Convention.
The following is a copy of a letter officially received from the President of the United States on February 25, 2014 by the United States House of Representatives:
“To the Congress of the United States:
Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication, stating that the national emergency declared on March 1, 1996, with respect to the Government of Cuba’s destruction of two unarmed U.S.-registered civilian aircraft in international airspace north of Cuba on February 24, 1996, as amended and expanded on February 26, 2004, is to continue in effect beyond March 1, 2014.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
The White House, February 25, 2014.”
Source: Congressional Record