The warming of relations between Cuba and the United States has left the way open for a reconciliation between France and the island. Monday, May 11, François Hollande is the first Western head of state to visit Cuba since the announcement of thaw. He hopes to sign several contracts to include “access to Latin American markets.” As a kind of conclusion fifty years of “I love you me either” between Paris and Havana. Timeline
- 23 October 1962:. Support the United States against the Cuban Missile
When the Security Council United Nations, on 23 and 24 October 1962, Charles de Gaulle brings his staunch support in the US at the UN in the Cuban missile crisis, through Roger Seydoux, the representative of France. This was triggered by the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles installed in Cuba and pointed toward the US
- 10 July 1975:. Three Cuban diplomats expelled
The French government expelled three Cuban diplomats. He accuses them of being linked to Carlos. He had claimed a series of attacks in Paris in 1974. In 1999, a former spy and top Cuban official, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, assured that “Fidel Castro has funded Carlos.”
- August 19, 1991: Paris is against the embargo US
As of August 19, 1991 and each year since, Paris vote in the UN General Assembly in favor of the resolution calling for the lifting of the US embargo imposed on Cuba since 1962.
- 13- March 16, 1995: First visit of Castro in France
Officially invited by UNESCO, Fidel Castro makes his first visit to France, 13 to 16 March. The Cuban President was received by François Mitterrand. The Cuban exile organizations and human rights protest against this international recognition. Fidel Castro was again by the UN Committee on Human Rights for arbitrary arrests, detention, persecution and threats. On 31 May and 1 June, six French prisoners are released at the request of a mission of human rights of the France Libertés, led by Danielle Mitterrand.
- June 5, 2003: diplomatic sanctions
The relationship is clearly cool between France and Cuba. On 5 June 2003, following the sentencing of 75 dissidents to prison terms ranging from six to 28 years in prison after summary trials and execution of three Cubans who attempted to flee to the United States, Europe imposes a series diplomatic sanctions. France follows. Havana had frozen back its cooperation with the EU Member States
- November 30, 2010. Resumption of bilateral cooperation,
While the 23 June 2008, the European Union decided to open a political dialogue with Cuba, including carrying the human rights, a joint statement on the resumption of bilateral cooperation signed in Havana November 30, 2010 between France and Cuba
- April 12, 2014. first visit by a French foreign minister
Europe decided at the beginning of April 2014 to restore its relations with Cuba to push Havana to improve its human rights policy. Laurent Fabius from Cuba to France in order to discuss this subject. He is the first French foreign minister to tread Cuban soil on April 12, 2014. Laurent Fabius had talks with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and spoke of Cuba as a “friend” of France.
On this occasion, a branch of the Ubifrance agency was opened (Ubifrance was present in the country since 2009). This organization assists French companies to export and help particular.
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