The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, and his Honduran counterpart, Xiomara Castro, agreed this Saturday, June 22, throughout an official go to, to hunt joint options to face the challenges of migration, growth and the local weather disaster bilaterally.
“This morning we had a fruitful assembly, I thanks in your time, President,” Castro mentioned throughout a press convention following his assembly with Arévalo, on the Nationwide Palace of Tradition.
The Honduran president indicated that they agreed to “reactivate” the Central American Integration System (SICA) so as to deal with the issues that “have an effect on” the inhabitants of each nations.
The local weather disaster, insecurity and migratory disaster have been named by Castro as frequent issues and “a really huge problem that should be assumed by means of initiatives proposed between international locations.”
Throughout Castro’s go to, which started this Saturday, each international locations agreed to overview the mechanism for managing the Motagua River basins, “which unites us to shared challenges,” the president defined.
The Motagua River, with an extension of 487 kilometers, crosses the northeast of Guatemala and flows into the Atlantic of Honduras and lately has registered vital deterioration as a consequence of air pollution from plastics and waste of all types.
For his half, Arévalo introduced that Castro’s go to is “an unequivocal instance of the dedication of each international locations” and highlighted that Guatemala and Honduras are united by “related challenges.”
“We agreed with the president that within the second half of this 12 months we may have a bilateral assembly to search out new agreements to face the challenges now we have corresponding to migration, local weather change and the customs union,” Arévalo added.
Lastly, Arévalo de León assured that he’ll journey to Tegucigalpa this 12 months inside the framework of SICA seeking reactivating cooperation within the area.
Castro will return to Honduras this Saturday by air within the followingnoon, following a brief eight-hour journey within the neighboring nation of Guatemala.
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