15 Presidents to
Guatemalan Inauguration
Fifteen Heads of State
and Government and
ministerial delegations
from 75 countries will
attend the take office
ceremony of Guatemalan
president-elect Alvaro
Colom on January 14,
said the Guatemalan
Foreign Ministry here
Tuesday.
Among the Presidents who
confirmed their
attendance, there are
Daniel Ortega
(Nicaragua); Martin
Torrijos (Panama);
Maunel Zelaya
(Honduras); Antonio Saca
(El Salvador); Leonel
Fernandez (Dominican
Republic) and Oscar
Arias (Costa Rica).
All these countries are
part of the Central
American Integration
System, in a region that
Alvaro Colom considers a
priority in his foreign
policy as President of
Guatemala.
The Guatemalan Foreign
Ministry also confirmed
the attendance of the
Presidents of Venezuela,
Hugo Chavez; Rafael
Correa, from Ecuador;
Felipe Calderon, from
Mexico, and Alvaro Uribe,
from Colombia, among
others.
There will also be high
level delegations from
several Latin American,
European and Asian
countries and
international
organizations,
Guatemalan Foreign
Ministry spokeswoman
Valentina Flores told
Prensa Latina Tuesday.
Flores said everything
is ready to receive
official delegations,
which will start
arriving in Guatemala on
January 12, until the
14th, the day of the
ceremony, which will be
covered by nearly 400
national and
international
journalists.
Alvaro Colom won the
elections in a second
round on November 4, and
will rule Guatemala from
2008 to 2012. |
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