The United States will not support Cuba to rejoin the Organization of American States (OAS) until the country makes political reforms, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Washington on Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
Testifying before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton said that Cuba's return to the OAS depends on the fact that it is willing to accept democratic standards.
"If Cuba is not willing to abide by terms, then I cannot foresee how Cuba can be a part of the OAS and I certainly would not be supporting in any way such an effort to admit it," Clinton said.
The Cuban government has said that it has no desire to rejoin the OAS, which, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said last month, "has not done a single service to our people."
Cuba was shut out of the OAS in 1962 during the Cold War when the United States imposed pressure on the organization in an attempt to overthrow the socialist government of Cuba and isolate it.
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