By David Adams and Daniel Trotta MIAMI/HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba is willing to restore diplomatic relations with the United States as soon as the Obama administration declares its intent to take the country off a list of state sponsors of terrorism, according to a senior Cuban official. It is the first time Cuba has said publicly it is willing to restore relations before it is removed from the list. Delinking the opening of embassies could make it easier for diplomatic relations - broken 54 years ago - to be renewed prior to a regional heads of state summit in Panama on April 10-11. "In our view it's not necessary to put it all in one package because if, for example, in a few weeks we receive some satisfactory notification in regards to the matter of Cuba's removal from terrorist list, I think we will be ready to then begin talking about how to formalize the re-establishing of relations," Vidal said in an interview published on Sunday in Cubadebate.

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