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The US and Cuba will on Wednesday announce the opening of embassies in each other’s capitals, a major step in re-establishing diplomatic ties severed in 1961, a senior US official has said.
US officials said President Barack Obama would make a formal announcement from the White House at 15:00 GMT on Wednesday.
It is still not clear exactly what the date will be for opening the embassies, but it is likely to be in mid-July, says the BBC’s Cuba correspondent Will Grant.
The US State Department must give Congress two weeks’ warning before the embassy can open, he adds.
It is the latest major milestone in a thawing process between the two countries’ relations, which started with secret negotiations and was announced last December.
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