The White House says President Barack Obama alone will decide who to meet with when he arrives in Cuba on a history-making trip this month.
Spokesman Josh Earnest says the guest list will be determined solely by the White House.
Earnest was responding to news reports that Secretary of State John Kerry is no longer making a solo visit to Cuba before the president, due to disagreements with Cuban officials over which dissidents will meet Obama. Obama has set meeting with pro-democracy activists on the communist island nation as a condition for the trip.
Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro moved more than a year ago to restore formal diplomatic relations between their formerly estranged countries.
Kerry now plans to travel to Cuba with Obama during his two-day trip on March 21-22.
