Ortega to Visit Honduras
on Friday
Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega will visit
Honduras this weekend to
discuss issues of
bilateral interest with
his counterpart, Manuel
Zelaya, the Foreign
Ministry said in a
communiqué on Monday.
After arriving in
Tegucigalpa on Friday,
the Nicaraguan president
will sign economic and
political agreements,
the press release says.
This is Ortega's first
visit to Honduras, where
he will travel
accompanied by several
entrepreneurs. The visit
will conclude on Sunday.
Ortega and Zelaya met in
the Nicaraguan city of
Ocotal, near Managua,
after the International
Court in The Hague set
the maritime limits
between the two
countries on October 7.
"Our adversaries were
wrong: the ruling in The
Hague has united Central
America (.) The sentence
is important, it unites
us like brothers,"
Zelaya said on that
occasion.
The dispute took Central
America on the verge of
an armed conflict in the
1980s, a period during
which mutual accusations
and hostility were
common.
The verdict partially
met the two countries
territorial demands: it
granted Nicaragua nearly
10,800 square miles of
11,500 it was demanding,
and it gave Honduras
sovereignty over four
keys: Bobel, Savanna,
Port Royal and South. |
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