Cuba Embassy reopens in Washington after 54-years

#Cuba #Havana #JohnKerry #barackobama #RaulCastro Cuba and the US have officially re-established their respective embassies in Washington and Havana respectively at 12.01am on Monday – while the Cuban flag was hung in the lobby of the State Department, the American flag will be raised over the US embassy in Havana during a ceremony that will be attended by John Kerry, US Secretary of State in August.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 20 July 2015.

John Kerry has hailed this as a "new beginning" after a ceremony marked the reopening of the Cuban embassy in Washington. In this symbolic event, the Cuban flag was raised in the US capital for the first time in 54 years.
This is seen as the latest milestone as the two former Cold War foes continue to rebuild the broken diplomatic ties. Of course, one issue which remains unresolved is the US military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – this was highlighted by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. In his words, the historic events will make sense with the removal of the economic, commercial and financial blockade because that resulted in deprivation and damage to the people of Cuba. He also mentioned the return of occupied territory in Guantanamo, and respect for the sovereignty of Cuba.
As far as history goes, relations between the US and Cuba had started to deteriorate after the 1959 Cuban Revolution overthrew the Batista government. However, last December US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro made the breakthrough announcement that the two governments would begin working on normalizing relations – that has now taken shape.
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