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Article: Government refuses permission for US transplant professionals to attend Cuban scientific symposium.(International Symposium on Coma and Death)
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- Transplant News
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- March 9, 2004
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A US government agency unexpectedly prevented a group of transplant professionals, including the co-chair of the symposium and about half of the featured speakers, from traveling to Cuba to participate in the IV International Symposium on Coma and Death, scheduled to be held March 9-12 in Havana.
A flurry of last minute negotiations by the travel agency making arrangements for the Americans to attend were thwarted last week when the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) refused to grant a license to allow the participants to attend the symposium that was first held in Havana in 1992. The final ruling by OFAC was announced on March 5 but many of the 32 ...