US Does Not Consider Giving Guantanamo Naval Base to Cuba - White House

© AFP 2023 / Files / Paul J. RICHARDSA US flag flies in this April 24 2007 file photo at Camp V inside Camp Delta at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
A US flag flies in this April 24 2007 file photo at Camp V inside Camp Delta at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Sputnik International
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The United States is not considering handing over the Guantanamo Bay naval base to Cuba.

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Ash Carter, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, to discuss the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. - Sputnik International
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The United States is not considering handing over the Guantanamo Bay naval base to Cuba, despite reports suggesting the Obama administration has been considering such a move, White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said during a press briefing on Tuesday.

"It's not under consideration and we've said that many times," Earnest stated in response to queries that Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said the Obama administration was considering turning over the naval base to Cuba.

The US detention center at Guantanamo Bay that houses suspected terrorists is located on the naval base complex.

Following the administration’s announcement, Rubio suggested that Cuba was already "ripping the American people off and now it’s demanding the return of a US naval station."

On Tuesday, the Obama administration laid out a plan which detailed how it planned to close the infamous detention center at Guantanamo Bay. President Barack Obama argued that the existence of the facility hurts US interests, and that closing the facility would save the US some $335 million over ten years.

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