* [The Common Position on Cuba is reproduced from the Official Journal of the European Communities, 1996 O.J. (L 322) 1. By adopting this position, the European Union effectively urged Cuba to improve its policies on human rights and grant increased political freedoms, which may have influenced the decision of the U.S. administration on January 3, 1997, to suspend Title III of the U.S. Helms-Burton Act for six additional months.

[The U.S. Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996 (the Helms-Burton Act) appears at 35 I.L.M. 357 (1996); the U.S. Statement by the President suspending Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, January 3, 1997, appears at 36 I.L.M. 216 (1997); the Canadian Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act Incorporating the Amendments Countering the U.S. Helms-Burton Act, with an Introductory Note by Douglas Forsythe, appears at 36 I.L.M. III (1997); the EU Council Regulation No. 2271/96, Protecting Against the Effects of the Extra-Territorial Application of Legislation Adopted by a Third Country, appears at 36 I.L.M. 125 (1997); the Mexican Act to Protect Trade and Investment from Foreign Norms that Contravene International Law, with an Introductory Note by Jorge A. Vargas, appears at 36 I.L.M. 133 (1997); and the Canada-Cuba Joint Declaration, January 22, 1997, improving relations between the two countries in a wide variety of fields, appears at 36 I.L.M. 210 (1997).]