Castro: Cuba can work with Trump if sovereignty respected

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President Raul Castro expressed Cuba`s willingness to continue negotiations with President Donald Trump`s new administration but warned that his country would not concede any of its sovereignty. He said Cuba was willing to continue normalizing relations with Washington but his country would not "make concessions inherent to its independence and sovereignty" to achieve this. "Cuba and the United States can cooperate and live together in a civilized manner," Castro said Wednesday in a speech at the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. The leaders veered off the expected script for the summit after Trump signed executive actions calling for construction of a border wall and stripping support for so-called sanctuary cities. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa called upon everyone to "assume a clear position in defense of migrants, not only from Latin America and the Caribbean, but the entire world.