Senior Obama foreign policy aide Ben Rhodes said that neither the administration nor the Cuba authorities had asked for a meeting between Obama and the 89-year-old.
“On this trip, we are not planning to meet with Fidel Castro,” he said.
“We have not requested such a meeting The Cubans have not requested such a meeting of us.”
Castro is rarely seen in public these days and when photographed in state-run media he has appeared in a wheel chair.
Castro met Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who visit the island late last week.
Obama earlier suggested in a television interview with ABC that he may be open to a meeting.
“If his health was good enough that I could meet with him, I’d be happy to meet with him. Just as a symbol of the end of, or the closing of this Cold War chapter in our mutual histories. It’s not clear to me what the state of his health is.”
– AFP