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Declarations of Jeff Flake about relationships between Cuba and the U.S
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The Republican senator Jeff Flake remarked that traveling to Cuba is safe, in a clear message to those who want to avoid the fluency of North Americans to the largest of the West Indies.

Flake, representative of the High Chamber of the Congress in Arizona since 2013, remarked in declarations to the national and foreign press that he went to Cohiba Hotel in Havana and he intends Americans know that is safe to travel to Cuba.

Rules have changed, he said while referring to the restrictions to the trips imposed by the Donald Trump´s administration in 2017, but we still have choices left for Americans to come to Cuba¨, he assured

Many people continue coming but some others not –due to travel alerts emitted for the U.S government towards Cuba-, and I would like to be sure they receive this message of safety to travel to Cuba, underlined Flake.

In 2017 arrived in Cuba 1 173 428 North Americans for an increase of a 191% , related to the ones that arrived in 2016 and from these 619 523 were citizens of this country and the rest were Cuban Americans.

The increase of the arrivals in 2017 was produced despite the restrictions imposed by Washington and its citizens, who cannot make tourism in the island or travel freely as a consequence of the economic commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S more than five decades ago.

He reaffirmed he has never been in favor of the politics of blockade of the U.S administrations and he does in favor of normalizing the relationships between the two countries, which assured are beneficial for Havana and Washington.

The North American legislator was welcome by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Councils of States and Ministries, with whom he talked about the bilateral relations being accompanied by the executive President of Google, Eric Emerson Schmidt.

Senator of Arizona, Flake has cosponsored law projects which contribute to the cooperation and freedom to travel to Cuba.

We have stepped backwards, he confessed, referring to the position of Trump respect to Cuba, but we look forward to going onward, in this way we can come back to the model of relations that were achieved during Obama´s Administration during which, Cuba made more than twenty agreements.

He underlined that he is happy to come back to Cuba, a country he has visited in several occasions and he is eager that the American people could travel to the largest of the West Indies and have interchange with the Cuban people.

He said that during the meeting with the Cuban chief of State he realized that there are not people speaking different languages, and at the same time they could dialog in the same language like the engineers, referring to the profession of Díaz Canel Bermúdez and Emerson Schmidt, the executive president of Google.

While referring to the recent agreement between postal authorities of Cuba and the U.S for the direct mail travels in regular flights, he affirmed it is really good news and it should be taken as a model to new understandings.

First meeting between Díaz Canel and senator Jeff Flake

The meeting between Díaz Canel and the delegation headed by Jeff Flake is the first one coming from the U.S welcome by the Cuban official after taking his charge as President of the Councils of States and Ministries last April 19th .

During the meeting they talked about of the bilateral relations and the possible cooperation areas of mutual interest.

The visitors were accompanied by your Excellency Philip Goldberg, official in charge of business of the U.S and Cuba.

(C) Cuba TV, Cuban state owned media.
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