Top Cuban diplomat: ‘We will have to’ negotiate with the United States

NEW YORK – Cuba’s top diplomat said his country’s officials have no choice but to engage the United States in negotiations to normalize relations, despite a decade of diplomatic whiplash and mixed messages from Washington.

In an interview with The Hill, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla responded to a question posed by former Obama administration adviser Ben Rhodes on whether Cuban officials would “ever, ever negotiate anything with America ever again after this?”

“We will have to,” said Rodríguez Parrilla, who was in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.