A group of officials from the Departments of State, Commerce and Treasury will soon travel to Cuba to hold meetings with the Foreign Ministry, other ministries, and banks and institutions of the island, announced in Washington Josefina Vidal, general director of the United States Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez is in Geneva heading a delegation that will participate at the high-level segment of the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council.

Some 400 private workers have joined the National Union of Hotel and Tourism Workers in the central province of Villa Clara.

Granma newspaper published on Monday photos of a meeting on February 28 of Revolution leader Fidel Castro with the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters and an article describing the occasion written by Fidel.

Press release issued by the Cuban delegation to the round of talks on the resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States. Washington, February 27, 2015.

Jen Psaki: US Policy towards Cuba Hasn’t Worked

Positive and Respectful Atmosphere in Cuba-US talks

Jen Psaki, State Department spokesperson, acknowledged at a news conference in the capital, that the US policy toward Cuba in 50 years has failed.

Talks between Cuba and the United States continue under a positive, constructive and respectful atmosphere, Juan Jacomino spokesman of the Cuban Interests Section in the United States told Cuban News Agency.

Jen Psaki: US Policy towards Cuba Hasn’t Worked

Cuba and the U.S.A. Return to Negotiating Table on Friday

Josefina Vidal: We come to Bring Stances Closer

Representatives of Cuba and the United States return on Friday to the negotiating table for the second round of talks on the process of reestablishment of diplomatic relations, which will take place at the State Department in Washington.

We come with a constructive spirit, trying to bring stances of the two parties closer, said in Washington on Thursday Josefina Vidal, general director of the United States Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX), who heads the Cuban delegation to the second round of talks between the island and the United States.

Former Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero underlined on Thursday the need to exclude Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, one of the issues pending to be resolved by the United States to create the adequate context for the reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

Former chief of the US Interest Section in Havana, Wayne Smith, said in Washington that he feels optimistic about today´s bilateral US-Cuba talks aimed at reestablishing diplomatic relations.

A Cuban press delegation arrived at midnight in Washington DC to cover the second round of talks between the governments of Cuba and the US on the restoration of diplomatic relations.

Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the Unimted Naitons and President of the "Kofi Annan" Foundation will visit Cuba from February 26 to March 1st, 2015, the www.cubaminrex.cu Web site reported on Wednesday.

Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, met on Wednesday afternoon with former Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who is on a visit to Cuba.

A Cuban delegation, headed by Josefina Vidal, Director of the United States Division of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, arrived in Washington for the second round of talks between Cuba and the US.