US, Cuba talk business

Business leaders from the United States are holding talks in Cuba on ways of developing bilateral trade once the US embargo against the island is lifted.

The meeting, which takes place every year, comes as the US congress considers whether to lift sanctions on sales of food and medicine to Cuba imposed after Fidel Castro came to power forty-one years ago.

The BBC correspondent in Havana says that if the bill is approved, there'll be no shortage of American companies trying to do business with the island.

But our correspondent says opponents of trade with Cuba have blocked such proposals in the past.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service