This afternoon, the top officers of the Security Forces from Guatemala and Belize met at the OAS office in Western Belize.
The purpose was for a handing out of GPS equipment to both sides, in an effort to build a better relationship between the military of both countries.
To add a little bit of ceremony to the handing over, officials gave speeches about the importance of confidence building.
The CEO in the Ministry of National Security told the gathering that it's always a pleasure to meet with Guatemala, Belize's friend:
George Lovell - CEO, Ministry of National Security
"It is always a heart warming experience when an occasion such as this arise whereby we can experience the results of the excellent cooperation and friendly ties between entities. These cooperation and friendly ties that I referred to today are between Belize and the organization of American States. The establishment of the office of the general secretariat of the OAS in the adjacency zone of Belize and Guatemala has contributed to fostering from community to community cross-border contact - to improve cross border relations and to inform the communities along the border of the confidence building measures that are in place. They also perform various task of conducting interpretation of incidence that occurs within the adjacency zone, we must commend the director and his staff for the good hard work that they do in complying with the mandate that we gave them back in 2003 and which is still in place today."
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