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This is a list of diplomatic missions of the Republic of Cuba, excluding honorary consulates. Cuba has an extensive global diplomatic presence and is the Latin American country with the second highest number of diplomatic missions after Brazil .
The Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of Cuba to the United States of America. It is located at 2630 16th Street Northwest , in the Meridian Hill neighborhood. [ 1 ] The building was originally constructed in 1917 as the Cuban embassy, [ 2 ] and served in that capacity until the United States severed relations with ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Cuba. At present, the capital city of Havana hosts 116 embassies. Several other countries have ambassadors accredited from other regional capitals.
Soon after Cuba was colonized and incorporated into the Spanish Empire, there had been several contacts between Cuba and France.The first initial French contact with Cuba was in 1554 when French pirate Jacques de Sores (under the commission of King Francis I of France to raid Spanish ships and territories of gold) raided the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba.
The United States ambassador to the Republic of Cuba is the official representative of the president of the United States to the head of state of Cuba, and serves as the head of the Embassy of the United States in Havana. Direct bilateral diplomatic relations did not exist between the two countries from 1961 to 2015.
The Republic of Cuba has had diplomatic relations with North Korea since 29 August 1960. [129] Cuba maintains an embassy in Pyongyang and North Korea maintains an embassy in Havana. Che Guevara then a Cuban government minister visited North Korea in 1960 and proclaimed it a model for Cuba to follow. [130] Cuban leader Fidel Castro visited in 1986.
Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million ...
The authority issuing the present passport on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Cuba certifies that the bearer is a Cuban citizen and, in virtue of this, requests the civil and military authorities of the countries through which he travels to provide him with whatever protection and assistance he needs.