Kerry, Cuba’s FM see ‘progress’ in historic talks
12 April 2015 3:57 AM IST
Kerry and Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez met in Panama City last evening on the eve of the Summit of the Americas, the first meeting of this level since 1958, one year before Fidel Castro’s revolution.
The chief diplomats “had a lengthy and very constructive discussion this evening. The two agreed they made progress and that we would continue to work to resolve outstanding issues,” a senior State Department official said on condition of anonymity. The US State Department’s Twitter account published a picture of Kerry and Rodriguez looking at the camera with straight faces as they shake hands in a room with two chairs and a glass coffee table.
US President Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro landed hours earlier in Panama ahead of the Friday-Saturday summit, where they will interact in another milestone in their efforts to thaw relations that froze in 1961.
Obama was moving closer to removing a major hurdle in the US-Cuba diplomatic thaw, as a US senator indicated that the State Department recommended removing Havana from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The chief diplomats “had a lengthy and very constructive discussion this evening. The two agreed they made progress and that we would continue to work to resolve outstanding issues,” a senior State Department official said on condition of anonymity. The US State Department’s Twitter account published a picture of Kerry and Rodriguez looking at the camera with straight faces as they shake hands in a room with two chairs and a glass coffee table.
US President Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro landed hours earlier in Panama ahead of the Friday-Saturday summit, where they will interact in another milestone in their efforts to thaw relations that froze in 1961.
Obama was moving closer to removing a major hurdle in the US-Cuba diplomatic thaw, as a US senator indicated that the State Department recommended removing Havana from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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