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The US is close to making a huge announcement about Cuba
Reuters
Jun. 12, 2015, 9:03 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The two sides hope to conclude the deal by the first week of next month, clearing the way for Secretary of State John Kerry to visit Havana soon afterwards for a flag-raising ceremony to upgrade the U.S. Interests Section to a full-scale embassy, the sources said.
Since a breakthrough between the two former Cold War rivals announced in December, negotiators have settled all but a few differences and were confident they would soon be resolved, several sources told Reuters.
They said the exact timetable for the formal embassy opening was unclear because of Kerry's recovery from a broken leg suffered in a May 31 biking accident in France, as well as the looming June 30 deadline for a final nuclear deal with Iran, which would dominate Kerry's schedule over the next weeks.
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merrily
(45,251 posts)has redeeming virtues that the others do not.
unblock
(52,256 posts)not today's news narrowly, i mean the whole warming of relations with cuba.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_to_the_White_House
Demeter
(85,373 posts)and may we have many more of them, as US foreign policy is "through the Looking Glass".