Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque praised President Obama for signing executive orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center saying:

The Guantanamo naval base remains against the will and desire of the people and the government of Cuba.

Speaking Friday at a press conference in Guatemala City, where he was attending a meeting of foreign ministers from the Non-Aligned Movement, Roque called on Obama to carry out "a profound revision" of US policy toward Cuba. However, he wants the US to begin the process:

We are ready to sit down at a table and talk in a civilized manner, but it is not up to Cuba to take the first step…Cuba aspires to having normal and respectful relations with the United States.

  In an interview last year with Sean Penn, Cuba’s president Raul Castro told the actor that said he would like to meet President-elect Barack Obama on "neutral ground," suggesting Gitmo as a possible location:

We must meet and begin to solve our problems, and at the end of the meeting, we could give the president a gift … we could send him home with the American flag that waves over Guantanamo Bay.