US-Cuba Migration Talks Restart

The State Department says migration talks between the United States and Cuba will resume on Tuesday. The talks, which will take place in New York, follow the May announcement of President Obama's willingness to restart negotiations.

The talks were previously suspended in 2003 under the Bush administration. Among other things, the administration accused Cuba of denying some Cubans the right to travel to the United States, not permitting the US to set up a new legal way for Cubans to migrate.

The Cubans denied the accusations. “The Ministry rejects any attempt to hold Cuba responsible for failing to comply with the Migratory Accord, when in reality it is our country that faces intensifying hostilities and provocations from the United States government as part of your useless efforts to defeat the legitimate government elected in a sovereign way by the Cuban people,” the Cuban Foreign Ministry said in 2007.


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