The U.S. Treasury Department has issued amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulation. The measures will ease restrictions on travel and money transfers to Cuba.

The Treasury Department says that the move aims to promote "greater contact" between separated families in the United States and Cuba. Amendments will cover three areas - family visits, remittances and tele-communications.

The measures will increase "the flow of remittances and information to the Cuban people." President Barack Obama announced in April, that he would ease restrictions on travel and money transfers to Cuba.

(CCTV September 4, 2009)