US and Cuba to hold talks on migration

WASHINGTON - The United States and Cuba are to hold talks on migration and other questions for the first time
since such talks were broken off six years ago, the US State Department announced on Sunday.
The department officials said the talks, agreed to by Cuba on Saturday, would also cover mail services between
the two countries. No further details were made known.
US President Barack Obama had previously stated the desire to create a new beginning in US relations with the
revolutionary government in Havana.
The US president recently eased travel restrictions for exile Cubans to their country of origin as well as loosened
other restrictions in the US' Cuba policy.
Obama has however made clear that there was still a long road ahead in in overcoming decades of animosity
between the two countries, as he called for greater democracy and freedoms for Latin America's sole remaining
country under a one-party system.
Since the victory of the Cuban revolution in 1959, the U.S. administrations have invariably adopted a hostile
policy toward Cuba. The United States severed relations with Cuba in 1961 and has imposed economic
blockade and restrictive measures on trade with Cuba since 1962.