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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

US officials visited Cuba to discuss telecommunications

The delegation was headed by the Ambassador of the American nation on the island, Daniel Sepúlveda, also Coordinator for International Communications Policy and Information, and was attended by officials of the trade area and the Federal Communications Commission. Officials met with the Cuban Deputy Minister of Communications, Jorge Luis Perdomo, and visited the headquarters of the state company Etecsa and the Computer Sciences University, among other public entities.

The aim is to advance bilateral negotiations on telecommunications, one of the areas with the greatest breakthrough since the return of dialogue between the two countries at the end of 2014.

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