When the delegation arrived at the José Martí airport in Havana, they were hospitably received by a contingent of public officials and a group from the Bethel Home, among them a brother who remembered the last visit to Cuba of a Governing Body member ​ — Milton Henschel — ​ in 1961.
फिर १९९८ में, अधिकारियों ने १८ यहोवा के साक्षियों के इस अंतर्राष्ट्रीय समूह को आने की इज़ाज़त दे दी, जिसमें शासी निकाय के तीन भाई भी थे ।