San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
A commission of Honduran officials will travel to Washington to participate in high-level working groups and address various issues, including migration.
The meetings begin on Friday and Ricardo Zúñiga will also take part in them, Honduran authorities say.
The chancellor of the republic, Lisandro Rosales, explained that the working tables were already scheduled and is that is why Ricardo Zúñiga he will not be coming to Honduras on his visit to the North Central American Triangle starting today.
The U.S. special envoy will visit Guatemala and El Salvador from today until Thursday to address the causes of migration.
The State Department has announced in a statement that Zúñiga will be accompanied by the senior director of cross-border security of the National Security Council, Katie Tobin.
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The U.S. envoy is not scheduled to visit Honduras on the agenda, so the chancellor explained the reasons why he will not arrive in the country.
Rosales said that in February the Honduran representation met with President Joe Biden’s top adviser for Latin America, Juan Gonzalez, and other officials in that country.
“We met with them and here we agreed on the establishment of working tables in the different areas of interest that Honduras has, basically national reconstruction, migration, economic development, hemispheric security and we have already worked with them.”
“We had a conversation with Ricardo Zúñiga to finalize details of these high-level work tables and they will be in Washington. I, Ambassador Luis Suazo, Minister (Carlos) Madero and others will participate for the different activities we have.” .
He added that it is a job they have been advancing, “we were the first CAs to move forward and we met with them. and we have made progress in the dialogue “.
Rosales stressed that it is clear that Zúñiga will not come to Honduras because work will begin in the American capital on Friday at the work tables with him and other bodies. “We have already worked on this issue.”