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| Barack Obama to Unveil Deal With Cuba to Reopen Embassies
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 1-July-2015
8:11:30 AM |
| President Barack Obama will unveil Wednesday a breakthrough deal with Cuba to reopen embassies in Washington and Havana, officials said, in a major step toward ending decades of Cold war enmity.
The agreement is a major foreign policy achievement for the president, and it comes alongside months of talks with Cuba after the leaders of the two countries agreed in December to begin warming relations.
Obama's remarks about reaching the diplomatic agreement are set for 11:00 am (1500 GMT) in the White House Rose Garden.
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Diplomatic ties have been frozen since 1961.
From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the Missile Crisis, antagonism across the narrow Straits of Florida often threatened to turn the Cold War hot.
Both countries are currently represented by "interest sections" and US and Cuban diplomats are not allowed to go out of Havana and Washington without official authorization from the host countries.
But the agreement was panned particularly by US critics who say it gives too much legitimacy to Cuba's single-party Communist government.
"This July 4, reports of a new US embassy in Havana will legitimize repression in Cuba, not promote the cause of freedom and democracy," said Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush about the deal.
"[Obama] goes legacy shopping as he opens a US embassy in Cuba that won't help freedom, democracy or the Cuban people," tweeted US lawmaker Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is Cuban born and serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Many Cuban-Americans oppose restoring ties with Havana's government. Republican presidential candidates who have ties to Cuba, including Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, have been outspoken in their opposition to the thaw.
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