US President Barack Obama has invoked "a future of hope" for Cuba in an unprecedented live TV address delivered from the Grand Theatre in Havana.

    Obama said he had come to Cuba "to bury the last remnants of the Cold War" after decades of conflict. "I've made it clear that the United States has neither the capacity nor the intention to impose change on Cuba. What changes come will depend upon the Cuban people," he said. 

    In his keynote speech on the last day of his three-day visit to Communist-run Cuba, Obama said it was time for the United States and Cuba to leave the past behind and make a "journey as friends and as neighbors and as family, together" towards a brighter future.

    He insisted that the United States would respect the two nations' differences and would not attempt to impose changes on the communist-run island. He urged Cubans to "leave the ideological battles of the past behind" and to define themselves not through their opposition to the US but just as Cubans. Obama is the first sitting president to visit Cuba in 88 years.

Source : QNA