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Cuba to attend migration talks with U.S.

Cuban authorities said Tuesday that migration talks with the United States will take place this week, the first in four years since the hardening of relations between both countries and amid a sustained increase in arrivals of Cuban citizens at the southern border of the U.S.

Meeting will be held Thursday in Washington, according to Cuba's Foreign Ministry

The U.S. flag flies at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, on March 18, 2019 days after the U.S. State Department announced it was eliminating a five-year tourist visa for Cubans. (Ramon Espinosa/The Associated Press)

Cuban authorities said Tuesday that migration talks with the United States will take place this week, the first in four years since the hardening of relations between both countries and amid a sustained increase in arrivals of Cuban citizens at the southern border of the U.S.

Cuba's Foreign Ministry said on Twitter that the meeting will be held in Washington on Thursday and that its delegation will be headed by Deputy Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio.

The last of these meetings which according to agreements between both countries must be held twice a year took place in July 2018, under the administration of then President Donald Trump.

Trump ended the policy of rapprochement between both nations that his predecessor Barack Obama had begun.