Cuba expressed on Thursday its satisfaction with the result of the first round of talks with the United States to normalize the postal mail between both countries.
"We are satisfied with this first meeting," Josefina Vidal, director of the Foreign Ministry's North American Department, said in an official statement published on Thursday.
The postal service between Cuba and the U.S. was interrupted in 1963 and all the postal sending, letters or pack must be done through third countries. There are more than 1.5 million people of Cuban origin living in the United States, most of them with direct relatives living in Cuba.
Vidal said that the meeting allowed "examining the issues that make difficult to normalize the mail post exchange between both countries, and evaluating a group of specific proposals led to surpass those obstacles."
The exchange between the post administration officers from both countries was "large and useful", he added.
Vidal said that Cuba had given the U.S. side its evaluation of the current situation of the universal postal service between both countries and had presented proposals to solve the difficulties in the area.
Cuba also approached issues to reestablish the direct postal mail between both nations, including mail transportation, postal security and payment methods.
According to the official note, the Cuban delegation stressed the importance of eliminating "discriminatory restrictions" of the U.S. embargo policy against Cuba, and allowing the reestablishment of the direct postal service based on the norms and principles of the Universal Postal Union. |
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