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| Obama, Castro to talk on sidelines of summit |
| Panama City, 11.04.2015 |
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| President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro will hold a bilateral meeting Saturday on the margins of the Summit of the Americas here, the first such encounter between leaders of the two nations in more than 50 years, White House officials said.
Planning for an Obama-Castro meeting has been a slow diplomatic choreography since December, when the two leaders announced that Cuba and the United States would restore diplomatic relations, including three rounds of lower-level negotiations over the mechanics of normalization.
The leaders’ meeting will occur on the margins of Saturday’s formal summit gatherings, when “we anticipate they will have a discussion,” deputy national security adviser Benjamin Rhodes said.
In a symbolic icebreaker, the two “greeted each other and shook hands” at the beginning of the summit’s opening session and dinner Friday night, National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said. A White House official said it “was an informal interaction and there was not a substantive conversation.” They have met face to face only once before — a handshake at Nelson Mandela’s funeral in South Africa.
Confirmation of a Saturday meeting came as the Cuban delegation to a gathering of civil society leaders said it would not attend meetings being held here as part of the summit because of the presence of “terrorist individuals” and “mercenaries” it said were in the pay of unnamed foreign powers.
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