(VOVWORLD) -Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on Friday welcomed the US decision to partially resume its consular service in Havana, which has been closed since 2017 following alleged "sonic attacks."
 Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez speaks at a news conference in Havana. Photo: AFP/VNA |
Rodríguez wrote on Twitter “Resumption of limited migration services at the US embassy on an unspecified date will be, when implemented, a step in the right direction.”
He also wrote that Washington's unilateral decision to close the mission in September 2017 following the baseless allegation of the so-called "sonic attacks" against US diplomats in this Caribbean island nation has “severely damaged Cuban families and Cuba-US relations in a number of sectors.”
This was Cuba's first official response since the Havana embassy's chargé d' affaires, Timothy Zúñiga-Brown, announced on Wednesday that Washington will resume limited processing of immigrant visas.