(EFE) this Wednesday the official journal Granma.
The US representatives are Salud Carbajal (Democrat), James Baird (Republican) and Jahana Hayes (Democrat), members of the House of Representatives and the Congressional Agriculture Committee, who have been in Cuba since last Saturday, according to the newspaper. .
They also visited scientific and commercial entities, added the source, without further details of what was discussed in these meetings.
The information does not specify anything more about the stay of the US congressmen, whose visit occurs within the intensification of bilateral relations
The meeting with the Cuban vice president at the headquarters of the Caribbean Executive was attended by the interim Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gerardo Peñalver; Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, and the Cuban business manager in Washington, Lianys Torres.
On the US side was the Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Havana, Benjamin Ziff.
The information does not specify anything more about the stay of the US congressmen, whose visit occurs within intensification of bilateral relations formal that has been registered in recent months.
This year there have been contacts between the two countries on issues such as migration, trade and disaster assistance.
Although still far from the levels of the so-called “thaw” of the last government of Barack Obama, in recent times there have been some gestures and signals in both directions, according to experts.
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