The agreement paves the way for thousands of visitors to the island on a daily basis.
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While U.S. officials still criticize Cuba for human rights, they now believe promoting political and other freedoms is more likely to be achieved through engagement.
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Going as a traveler is still taboo under US law, yet American explorers overflowed the island this year under 12 classes endorsed by the legislature, including helpful, instructive and individuals to-individuals trips meant to expand correspondence between residents of both nations.
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One year ago today, December 17 or, as the Cubans call it, “17D”, President Barack Obama stunned the world by announcing that, after two years of stealthy, back-channel talks with Raul Castro’s government, the United States would “end an outdated”-that is, hostile-“approach that, for decades, has failed to advance our interests, and instead we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries”.
The understanding is a key development as Cuba and the USA continue to negotiate over a number of issues which could ultimately see the US trade embargo lifted.
“This is as much a political document as it is a transportation document”, he said.
“The government of Cuba is fully willing to continue advancing in the construction of a kind of relation with the United States that is different from the one that has existed throughout its prior history, that is based on mutual respect for sovereignty and independence”, said Castro, dressed in his four-star general’s uniform.
Cuba’s embassy in Washington said in a statement on the airline deal that the countries reiterated their commitment to flight security and to protecting civil aviation “from acts of unlawful interference”.
The State Department reminded USA citizens on Thursday that a ban on touristic travel to Cuba remains in place.
Even though airlines are eager to start services, scheduled flights are unlikely to start until the second quarter of 2016 as the approval process will take two to three months, he said.
Other airlines – American Airlines Group Inc, Delta Air Lines Inc and United Continental Holdings Inc – have expressed interest in scheduling flights to Cuba.
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Obama’s administration embarked on the rapprochement after concluding that decades of US isolation of Cuba had not succeeded in bringing about change.
