Spurned for decades by Western powers, Cuba is now taking an ever bigger role in international relations.Havana hosted a historic meeting between the heads of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches on Friday. Cuba’s President Raul Castro, 84, witnessed their kiss and embrace.Those talks were significant in the context of tension between Cuba’s old ally Russia and the West over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.The communist state’s neutral status under its atheist leader Raul Castro was seen as key to it hosting those talks. …read more
Source: AsiaOne
