Cuba Restores Contacts with European Embassies
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Cuba ended a diplomatic deadlock with  eight European Union nations on Monday in response to proposals  by EU officials to stop inviting dissidents to National Day  receptions in Havana.
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The foreign ministers&#39; meeting of the European Union (EU) decided in Luxembourg Monday to lift the arms ban against Libya, which the bloc imposed 18 years ago.
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The European Union's foreign ministers agreed today to lift an arms embargo on Libya, marking a further step toward returning the country to the international diplomatic fold.
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EU member states have failed to agree to normalise ties with Cuba, opting instead to extend a suspension of sanctions on the communist Caribbean island, European diplomats said Thursday.
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In a bid to thaw icy relations with Europe after last year's crackdown on dissent, Cuban authorities released well-known writer Raul Rivero and four other dissidents as the EU reviews diplomatic sanctions against the island nation.
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Spain and Britain agreed to look at revisiting European policy on Cuba &quot;so it can be more effective,&quot; Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said following talks with British counterpart Jack Straw.
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The European Union is considering a  shift in policy toward Cuba that would get it back on speaking  terms with President Fidel Castro's government, diplomats said.
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HAVANA -- Cuba said yesterday it was resuming formal ties with all of Europe, ending a deep freeze in relations following a 2003 crackdown on dissidents and the executions of three men who tried to hijack a ferry.
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Morocco has decided to send its ambassador to Spain back to Madrid after a diplomatic rift over two Spanish enclaves on its Mediterranean coast, the foreign ministry said Monday.
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The EU is resuming trade talks with Iran, 18 months after they were halted over Tehran's nuclear programme.
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Officials from the EU's 25 member states are considering a Spanish proposal to lift sanctions on Cuba.
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BRUSSELS -- European Union foreign ministers agreed yesterday to restore normal diplomatic relations with the Cuban government while pledging to increase contacts with critics of President Fidel Castro.
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The EU and Serbia are to resume talks on closer ties, which Belgrade hopes will open the door to membership.
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HAVANA, Sep 29 (IPS) - Several agreements designed to bolster bilateral  trade have breathed new life into relations between Cuba and  Russia, in which the pragmatism of business has replaced the  ideological affinities of the past.
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Russia's newly returned ambassador to Georgia met with the foreign minister on Tuesday, as the two countries moved to improve ties badly strained when Georgia briefly detained four Russian military officers it accused of spying.
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Cuba's top anti-drug agent and European officials launched a course Monday on drug interdiction in the Caribbean, marking one of the first renewed programs since diplomatic relations between Havana and the EU were restored last month.
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HAVANA  - Cuba said Monday it was resuming formal ties with all of Europe, ending a deep freeze in relations following a 2003 crackdown on dissidents and the firing-squad executions of three men who tried to hijack a ferry.