The US Embassy, closed since 1961, reopens in Cuba.
The United States and Cuba will exchange embassies again today for the first time in more than 50 years.
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It is reported by the Air Force.
Relations between the two countries were frozen in 1961 when the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba and imposed a trade embargo on the country.
Since 1977, diplomatic missions, which were called “missions of interests,” operated in the United States and Cuba. These diplomatic missions operated under Swiss protection.
However, they did not have embassy status.
At the end of 2014, the United States and Cuba began a diplomatic rapprochement.
In April, the US President decided to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Later, the head of the Cuban State Council, Raul Castro, said that in order to restore normal relations between the countries, it is necessary to completely lift the embargo imposed by President John Kennedy in 1960.
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