America
US, Cuban leaders hold face-to-face talks
Panama City, April 12
US and Cuban leaders
held first face-to-face talks in decades on Saturday in Panama City,
capital of Panama, amid detente between the two nations.
The
meeting between US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro
was held on the sidelines of the seventh Summit of the Americas, in
which Cuba participated for the first time.
This is the first
face-to-face meeting between the two leaders after they announced the
start of normalising relations in December 2014.
On Friday, the two leaders shook hands and exchanged small talk before the opening ceremony of the summit.
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