HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 20 (acn) Cubans will receive the President of the United States this afternoon in Havana with the hospitality that characterizes it, and with the respect he deserves for being a Head of State.
Obama, elected the 44th President of the US, arrives in Havana with his family for the first visit of a sitting president 88 years after Calvin Coolidge did it.
This trip takes place barely 15 months after the historical announcements of December 17, 2014, when Cuban President Raul Castro and President Obama took the airwaves to make public the decision of restoring diplomatic relations, broken over five decades before.
The three day visit is an important step on the road to improve the ties between the two countries, and to get closer to the ultimate goal of normalizing relations.
Cuba has emphasized that to have fully normal relations they will have to solve pending issues, as the economic, financial and commercial blockade of Cuba by the US, and the return of the Guantanamo bay area occupied by an US naval base.
Josefina Vidal, head of the US Department at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said recently that this trip is an ideal moment to tell Obama the will of the Cuban government to work on a new era for the bilateral relations, based on the Charter of the United Nations, the principles stated in the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Peace Zone, the respect to the differences, and the historical, cultural and social between the two peoples.
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