TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.- Lisandro Rosales, Head of the Foreign Ministry, met this Friday with the diplomat Ricardo Zúñiga, appointed by US President Joe Biden to deal with migration issues in the Northern Triangle.
Through a tweet from the Honduran Embassy in the United States, authorities confirmed the high-level meeting, which is also attended by Katherine Dueholm, Acting Under-Secretary for Mexico and Central America, and Patrick Ventrell , director for Central America.
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“It is the first political dialogue with Mr. Ricardo Zúñiga, Mr. Juan Gonzales and other people from the Biden administration. Subsequently, the various work tables will be installed throughout the day, where the United States will also have of them personeros of very high level “, Lisandro explained.
They also detailed that within the agenda will be discussed five priority areas including transparency and anti-corruption, security, reconstruction, climate change, economic opportunities and human rights.
“In this bilateral dialogue (between the US and Honduras) that we are resuming in Washington today with the administration of President Biden, priority is given to issues of common interest, which have implications for the development, security and stability of the region,” he said. specify the Foreign Relations holder via Twitter.
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For its part, Carlos Madero, Government coordinator, explained that these five topics “are of common interest to both countries”, so that mutual work talks will begin. “A bit of how we’re going to go in, how we’re going to structure and it’s part of the dynamic of this dialogue,” he pointed out.
Excluded?
At the beginning of the week, with the visit of Ricardo Zúñiga to Guatemala and El Salvador, Several Honduran sectors began to draw conjectures about their passage through Central America without including it as one of their destinations in the Honduran nation.
In this regard, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said that for several days several meetings had been held with representatives of the United States.
“The working tables have been planned since February and are already reaching their most important point to start with the agenda, as well as the collaboration that must exist between the two countries at the highest level” , he reiterated.
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