. >> peter cornblue from the national security, good to see you. >> good to see you, take care. >> to treat cuba as any other country is not as easy as a handshake or a signature on a memo. serious issues have to be worked out along with normalized relations rather than being postponed for another day. does allowing cuba bass to the helicopters back to the hemispheric good relations, stay with us, it's the "inside story". >> welcome back to "inside story" on al jazeera america many i'm ray suarez. for the first time since the cuban resolution, the united states has not tried block cuba in an all beings summit get together. cuba and the united states still have outstanding business to work outs before a truly bilateral relationship exists between the two. i'm joined by, now a consultant with her new firm lomalife global partners. ambassador for a country of 8 million people the united states not talking to cuba, ended up taking a lot of the oxygen in the room didn't it at previous meetings? >> absolutely, absolutely, i can certainly vouch for the meeting in cartagena whether i was the

this is peter cornblue, a recent book the back channels of cuba, the hidden history of washington and havana. what did you make of all this? obviously there are negotiations that have taken place aside from the three meetings aside from the december announcement. but the storied history that these two companies have had what is your sense of history today? >> i have a sense of history being made between two presidents who have been engaged with cold war in the caribbean for a long long time. the castros fidel raul, and the united states has maintained a policy of aggression, roll back the revolution, here finally you have the president of the united states and the president of cuba, sitting in a conference room with other latin american leaders officially reincorporating cuba into the system and a meeting bilaterally, this is a substantive meeting they have a lot to discuss they did discuss a lot and they are working hard to implement a significant change. repudiating the past of u.s. aggression towards cuba and moving towards a future where we can have normal diplomatic relations, li