Figueres Does Not Represent Costa Rica!
Costa Rican Chancellor, Roberto Tovar Faja, was emphatic that former
president, José Maria Figueres Olsen, was not representing Costa Rica at
the Summit held at the private Club Madrid in Spain.
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The Club de Madrid who held the conference on anti-terrorism invited
president Abel Pacheco, who declined the attendance due to prior
commitments. Tovar was not sure who invited Figueres to represent Costa
Rica, but he is certain that he was not there in any "official"
capacity.
President Pacheco was quick to point out that if Figueres wants to
attend the summit, it his personal choice, but he was strong in his
comments that Figueres does not represent Costa Rica and that he would
be calling the Costa Rican ambassador in Spain to get an explanation.
Legislative Deputy, Ricardo Toledo, former Minister for the Presidency,
was incensed that a man like Figueres, who received some us$900.000 from
Alcatel and is refusing to come to Costa Rica to face a legislative
committee, should show his face in this manner.
Figueres has been asked on several occasions by a legislative commission
to give his explanation of why he received such a large "consulting fee"
from the French telecommunications firm Alcatel. Figueres has refused to
return and the Fiscalía (Prosecutor's office) is studying the
possibility of asking a court for an international arrest warrant
against the former president, who now lives in Switzerland.
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