Raúl Castro and Barack Obama, in meeting held in Panama in April this year (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
The US president, Barack Obama, will meet with Cuban President Raul Castro on Tuesday in New York. The two will participate in the UN General Assembly's annual debate. The news was released on Sunday by the White House.
Both the US government like Cuba had already anticipated the possibility of an official meeting between its leaders. .
The meeting of the two leaders will be the second after the process of normalization of bilateral relations was announced - and that allowed the restoration of diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba.
Obama and Castro had spoken by phone last week, on the eve of Pope's visit to the two countries Francisco.
The leaders will address on Monday at the United Nations General Assembly.
Castro is already in New York, which opened Saturday at the UN and claimed the end of the American embargo on Cuba.
(EFE)