Following the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana, US companies began seeking compensation for property nationalized by the Cuban government over 50 years ago, the president of the Public Diplomacy Council told Sputnik Tuesday.The US sanctions...
While the official opening ceremony of the Cuban embassy was held today in Washington, the celebration in Havana is expected to take place on August 14, when Secretary Kerry will visit Cuba to raise the American flag over our embassy once more.
“Passing my bipartisan bill to lift the embargo would benefit the people of both of our countries by boosting USA exports and allowing Cubans greater access to American goods”.
The Cuban flag has flown proudly over Havana’s newly restored embassy as the USA and Cuba relaunched diplomatic ties but swiftly cautioned that sharp differences lingered after five decades of enmity.
The United States and Cuba quietly ushered in a new era of post-Cold War relations on Monday, formally restoring diplomatic ties severed more than five decades ago and re-establishing embassies in each other’s capitals.
The US was represented by Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson, who led US negotiators in six months of talks leading to the July 1 announcement, and Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana who will now become...
“We understand that Cuba has strong feelings about it and I can’t tell you what the future will bring but for the moment that is not part of the discussion on our side”, Kerry said.
The historic shift was publicly memorialized later Monday when Cuban officials formally inaugurated their embassy in Washington and Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag flew for the first time since the countries severed ties in 1961. A few USA lawmakers, including...
033-c-08-(Peter Orsi, AP correspondent)-“normalizing the relations“-AP correspondent Peter Orsi reports there’s a long way to go for the US and Cuba even with the opening of embassies”.
REP. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (R), Florida: I look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress to try to block the expansion of a U.S. Embassy in Cuba, to try to stop the confirmation of a US ambassador to the island. By midmorning, the Cuban government had pulled back several...
Gov. Rick Scott and Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez Cantera took time out of their schedules Monday – which each listed “no scheduled events” – to denounce the revival of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States.