Speech #1050006733

They did not know this. They have read in the media. in press and heard in the media. that we have what they say is an extraterritorial ban on investment in Cuba. We would have to point out. as I say. time and time again. no. it is just that we say that if a foreigner knowingly traffics in property stolen from Americans. then pursuant to our immigration laws we do not want that foreigner in the United States. No country has ever committed itself under the WTO. World Trade Organization. or its precursor. GATT. to an immigration policy. No country has ever committed itself with regard to who it admits in its borders and who it excludes from its borders. Those agreements. GATT before and the WTO now. are trade agreements on goods and services. not on immigration policy. So this challenge that the European Union is now bringing before the WTO based against our foreign policy. that foreign policy with regard to the Cuban dictatorship and the transition that I have briefly outlined and our immigration policy. the statement we have made that we do not want foreigners who knowingly deal in stolen property from American citizens to come into the United States. and they have to have the opportunity to divest before they come into the United States. and they have to say no. I am not going to divest from the property stolen from American citizens. to be excluded from the United States--that is our immigration lawthe Europeans are challenging that at the trade organization. at the WTO. They are making a serious mistake. Mr.