largest group of US legislators go to Cuba for talks

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061216/ts_alt_afp/cubauspoliticstrade_061216163253

US lawmakers arrive in Cuba for talks with top officials

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The 10-member delegation comprises Democrats Hilda Solis, Bill Delahunt, James McGovern, Jane Harman, Gregory Meeks and Lincoln Davis and Republicans Jeff Flake, Jo Ann Emerson, Mike Conaway and Jerry Moran, US officials said.

The lawmakers were due to meet with Cuban assembly speaker Ricardo Alarcon, also the top Cuban official for US affairs; Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque; central bank president Francisco Soberon; and Minister of Basic Industry and Communist Party official Yadira Garcia, Cuban sources said.

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The Arizona Republican said there was "a significant majority in the US Congress that wish to engage in dialogue."

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it's about time

actually, it's way past time to lift the embargo and for the US to act like a good neighbor