Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos tried to defuse the issue by first ascertaining whether the Cubans actually wanted to be invited. Having sent his foreign minister to Havana to ask, he received a surprising response: Cuba did wish to attend, despite having rejected in 2009 an invitation to return to the OAS.
哥伦比亚总统桑托斯试图用探明古巴是否真的渴望获邀来平息这一问题。他派外交部长前往哈瓦那探听虚实，结果得到了出人意料的回答：古巴确实希望参会，尽管该国曾在2009年拒绝了重回OAS的邀请。