Cuban-US foreign ministers hold historic talks

According to AFP, the US State Department's Twitter account just posted a photo of US Secretary of State John Kerry shaking hands with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez, starting a historic meeting on the sidelines of the OAS Summit of the Americas in Panama.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez shakes hands with his US counterpart John Kerry. Source: US State Department

The meeting took place late on April 9 local time, marking the highest level of contact between the two neighboring countries in decades.

In the photo just released by the US State Department, both Mr. Kerry and Mr. Rodriguez turned toward the camera with friendly faces, shaking hands.

This is the first time the two countries' top diplomats have met since 1958, a year before leader Fidel Castro launched the revolution in Cuba.

US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro were also in Panama to attend a conference taking place on April 10 and 11, in an effort to thaw relations between the two sides.

Ahead of the summit, Mr. Obama moved closer to removing major obstacles in US-Cuba relations by proposing to remove Havana from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

According to Vietnam+