Washington, Nov. 11 (RHC), -- U.S. lawyer Robert Muise, one of the most knowledgeable US legal experts about US-Cuba relations, has affirmed that the normalization of relations between the two nations will require a series of presidential actions on the part of the United States.

In an article entitled 'US Presidential Action on Cuba: The New Normalization' published by the magazine America's Quarterly, the US lawyer suggests what he calls 'a roadmap for how that normalization of relations could happen', which he insists must go far beyond simply lifting Washington's blockade against Cuba, as suggested by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a recent interview.

Robert Muise stresses that first it is necessary to dispose of any misapprehension that the US president has no authority to normalize relations with Cuba.

In Robert Muise's opinion, the United States must take a series of steps to normalize its relations with Cuba. The first two, he says, would be removing all US punitive measures imposed on Cuba and second, extending to Cuba the benefits all nations at peace with one another share, which includes granting equal access to one another's markets.

The prestigious US legal expert also mentions removing Cuba from the State Department's list of nations that sponsor terrorism, abolishing the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, ending the continued US occupation of a portion of Cuban territory at Guantanamo without the consent of the Cuban people and pardoning the three Cuban anti-terrorist fighters, who remain incarcerated in the United States.

US lawyer Robert Muise insists that once bilateral relations are fully normalized, Cuba and the United States could cooperate in several areas and mentions, for instance, environmental protection of the Caribbean waters, which the two nations share.