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WASHINGTON, May 22 – The US state department said on Friday it had offered to resume talks with Cuba about Cuban migration to the United States, a fresh sign of President Barack Obama’s effort to engage the communist state.
The talks, last held in 2003 and suspended by Washington in 2004, cover a mid-1990s agreement that aimed to prevent an exodus of Cuban refugees to the United States such as the 1980 Mariel boatlift and another wave of boat people in 1994.
