(VOVworld) - Cuba's official daily, Granma, said on Wednesday that the Cuban government welcomed the US announcement of lifting all financial restrictions on its exports and allowing official flights linking the two countries.

Cuban president Raúl Castro and US president Barack Obama meet in Panama on 4-11-2015. (Photo: whitehouse.gov)

The paper noted that the new package of measures by the Obama administration was another step forward for both countries and confirmed that it is possible to continue working for the total lifting of the blockade which weighed on Cuba.

It also called for the US to continue on this path, including allowing the US dollar to be used for Cuba's international financial transactions and the removal of restrictions on the exports of state-owned Cuban companies, which are confined to a few specific services.

This is the third package, after those of January and September 2015, announced by the White House to alleviate the economic sanctions placed on Cuba since 1962. However, it cannot lift the blockade as this matter is reserved for the US Congress, currently controlled by a Republican majority.