HAVANA: Cuba’s president, Raul Castro, has offered to discuss the future of Cuba with the US.

In making the offer, he said dialogue was possible as long as the US did not try to change the island's communist government.

Castro, speaking to the island's National Assembly, said he wanted to respond to recent overtures by Washington but the Cuban socialist system of government would remain non-negotiable.

Castro said he had been pleased with the less aggressive, more respectful approaches to himself and his brother, former leader Fidel Castro, by the Obama administration.

In his address he said he had not been elected President to return capitalism to Cuba or to surrender the revolution. LINK..