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More Talks On Confidence Building Measures
posted (June 4, 2013)
And extending on that discussion about the still verdant Chiquibul Forest in Belize and the largely denuded Peten region of Guatemala – the bi-national working group is trying to embark on a new round of confidence building measures, the kind that will foster organic relationships between Belize and Guatemala – the kind of relationships that neighbors should have naturally. Ambassador Martinez explained.

H.E. Fred Martinez - Belize's Ambassafor to Guatemala
"But we also discussed means about going forward with the confidence building measures between the countries, we spoke about visits from parliamentarian from Belize to visit Guatemala and vice versa - visits of the media, exchange of the media from one side of the media of Belize or Guatemala and vice versa. Also how to strengthen the trade agreement that exists between Belize and Guatemala. So far it's been going extremely well, we feel it can do even more and we need to expand it."

And even as there are new proposals for confidence building measures, our team in Antigua is picking up information which suggests that the international community – which sponsors those initiatives and the OAS Adjacency Office – may be losing patience with Guatemala – and may be looking at pulling funding for those programmes. We're following that story and hope to have more on it for you tomorrow.

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