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The United States and Cuba launch talks on Thursday on restoring diplomatic relations from contentious session on immigration accentuated the issues in overcoming five decades of hostilities. Dallas Escort

The biggest-level U.S. delegation in 35 years will conclude two-day talks in Havana on Thursday, with each party cautioning a sudden breakthrough was unlikely.

Senior U.S. officials say they hope Cuba will accept to reopen embassies and appoint ambassadors in one another's capitals in coming months.

The United States also wants travel curbs on its diplomats lifted and unimpeded shipments to its mission in Havana.

During talks on Wednesday, the Americans vowed to carry on granting safe haven to Cubans with special protections denied with nationalities.

Cuba complained the U.S. law promotes dangerous illegal immigration and protested against a different U.S. program that encourages Cuban doctors to defect, calling it a "reprehensible brain drain practice."

As her deputy sparred using the Cuban officials over immigration policy, charge U.S. negotiator within the diplomatic talks, Roberta Jacobson, arrived in Havana aboard a poster charter from Miami.

She was crowned first U.S. assistant secretary of state to go to the communist-led island in 38 years and the best-ranking visitor in 35 years.

Her Cuban counterpart will be Josefina Vidal, director in the foreign ministry's U.S. affairs, who also took part in the immigration talks.

The meetings are the initial since U.S. President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Dec. 17 they might work to bring back diplomatic ties snapped by Washington in 1961.

Despite resistance from some in Congress, Obama has set the usa over a path toward removing economic sanctions as well as a 53-year-old embargo against Cuba.

U.S. Foreign minister John Kerry said on Wednesday he anticipated formally opening a U.S. embassy in Cuba.

Kerry also said he was prepared, once the time was right, to meet up with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez, with whom he's only talked by telephone.

"So when it really is timely, if it's appropriate, I enjoy planing a trip to Cuba so as to formally open an embassy and start to go forward," Kerry told reporters in Washington.

In the annual State on the Union speech on Tuesday, Obama urged Congre