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Judi Lynn

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Tue Mar 3, 2015, 07:01 PM Mar 2015

Hollande plans first ever visit by French president to Cuba

Hollande plans first ever visit by French president to Cuba
AFP
March 4, 2015, 6:29 am

Paris (AFP) - President Francois Holland will make the first ever visit by a French head of state to Cuba in May in the latest sign of a thaw between the isolated communist nation and Europe and the United States.

The visit, announced Tuesday, was expected to be the first by a Western leader to the Caribbean island since the United States and Cuba announced a historic rapprochement on December 17.

Hollande's "visit to Cuba on May 11 will constitute the first visit by a French head of state to this country," the presidency said in a statement in Paris.

Meanwhile, the European Union and the communist regime will resume negotiations Wednesday and Thursday in Havana aimed at normalising ties.

More:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/world/a/26513952/

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