High-level delegations from Cuba and the United States are holding here today the second round of talks on migration issues, a diplomatic source confirmed.
The deputy director general for the United States of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) of Cuba, Johana Tablada, said on the social network Facebook that she is attending today the migration talks between the two nations.
Havana, November 15, 2022 - Representatives of Cuba and the United States held bilateral migration talks in Havana on Tuesday. Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez headed the Cuban delegation and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Emily Mendrala headed the U.S. delegation.
Havana, October 18, 2022.- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba appreciates the two million dollar assistance offered by the US State Department to help Cubans who are suffering the damages caused by hurricane Ian. Such assistance would be channeled through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, an agency Cuba is a party to and with which it has had long and smooth relations.
This contribution will add up to the vast recovery and reconstruction efforts that are being carried out by the Cuban national authorities and the people.
The companies Aerovadero S.A. and Maravana Cargo, from Cuba and the United States will work on the transportation of non-commercial cargo, thus increasing the facilities between both countries.
By means of a contract, signed on the last day of the International Transport Fair, distances and delivery times to final customers of non-commercial merchandise originating in the northern nation and destined for the island will be shortened, particularly those sent by Cubans living there.
On October 7, the Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect (ACERE) organized the webinar “Legal and Policy Reforms in Cuba: Gender and LGBTQI Protections, the Rights of the Accused and Racial Equity”.
During the past few months, the US State Department has been concocting a new pretext to affect bilateral diplomatic relations, associated to the granting of the diplomatic and official visas required by the staff of the respective embassies in Washington and Havana to perform their duties. The maneuver consists in claiming that Cuba is hindering the granting of visas for designated officials at the US embassy in Cuba, which allegedly hinders the work of that diplomatic mission.
