Obama says U.S. seeks 'new beginning' with Cuba

PORT OF SPAIN, April 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States was seeking a "new beginning" with Cuba and was willing to engage the Cuban government on issues ranging from human rights to migration and the economy.

"Let me be clear: I am not interested in talking for the sake of talking. But I do believe that we can move U.S.-Cuban relations in a new direction," Obama said in prepared remarks for the opening session of the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad.

(Reporting by David Alexander; Writing by Patrick Markey and Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Eric Walsh)