At the top of the news, we told you how CEO Alexis Rosado is poised to become the next Belizean Ambassador to Guatemala. Well, currently, there is a move by the Organization of American States to get Belizean Ambassador to the US Nestor Mendez elected as the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS.
That was the decision that Belize took at the last SICA meeting in the Dominican Republic. He reportedly has the support of the other member states, but it may play out that his boss at the OAS could be a Former Vice President of Guatemala.
Yesterday, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington briefed the media on the SICA agenda item in which Former Guatemalan Vice President Eduardo Stein was officially announced as a candidate for the office of the Secretary General:
Hon. Wilfred Elrington - Minister of Foreign Affairs
"The prime minister specifically pointed out that we had committed to another country before the announcement of this times candidacy, so he could not join in that decision by the rest of the SICA members. The prime minister was specifically clear on that, we also have a candidate for the deputy secretary general position. That is our own Ambassador Nestor Mendez in Washington and that time the prime minister put forward his name and it was my impression that we also got the commitment of the countries, the SICA countries that they would support Ambassador Mendez; But in relation to the Guatemalan candidacy the prime minister pointed out very clearly that in fact we had already committed to another candidate before we were aware of the Guatemalan candidacy, he was not in a position to join the consensus."
Alindy Marisol Amaya - News Director, KREM News
"Who's the candidate that Belize will be supporting?"
Hon. Wilfred Elrington
"A candidate out of Uruguay."
Alindy Marisol Amaya
"So, in relation to the candidacy of Mr. Mendez, has Belize received the support of Guatemala as a SICA country?"
Hon. Wilfred Elrington
"I'm not too clear whether in fact - the sense I got was that the SICA heads at that time agreed to support him in like matter in which they had agreed to support Guatemala candidate for the top position."
The other candidate for the post of Secretary General is Uruguay's Candidate Luis Almagro, who is the country's current Foreign Affairs Minister. Current Sec Gen Jose Miguel Insulza officially leaves office in May of 2015.
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