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Costa Rica And Nicaragua
End Bilateral Talks That
Began In Liberia
(Infocom) — Costa Rica
and Nicaragua have
finished their Sixth
Bilateral Meeting, which
resulted in the signing
of several agreements
and a work agenda that
deepens the often-times
troubled relations
between the neighboring
nations.
The bi-national talks
began last June 19 with
a preliminary meeting in
Liberia, Guanacaste,
attended by some 60
delegates from several
government institutions
of both countries.
The last meeting, which
was held at the
Chancellor’s Office in
San Jose, was presided
by the foreign relations
vice minister of Costa
Rica, Edgar Ugalde
Alvarez, and Nicaragua,
Valdrack Jaentschke
Whitaker.
Five commissions were
established as a result
of the talks, including
political affairs;
economic, trade and
tourism affairs;
migration, labor and
security affairs; border
affairs; and cooperation
affairs.
Signed in the bilateral
meeting were two letters
of intention — one for
collaboration in matters
of agriculture and rural
development between the
Costa Rican Ministry of
Agriculture and
Livestock Production (MAG)
and the Nicaraguan
Ministry of Agriculture
and Forestry; and the
other one for
cooperation and exchange
of geospatial
information between the
Costa Rican Geographic
Institute and the
Nicaraguan Institute for
Territorial Studies.
“We have made important
advances. We are
satisfied with the
agreements we have
reached,” Costa Rican
Vice Chancellor Ugalde
Alvarez said about the
round of negotiations,
underscoring that the
bilateral mechanism used
should allow to provide
concrete answers to the
needs of both nations
and, in particular,
those of border
communities.
Ugalde Alvarez also
pointed to the permanent
nature of the dialog
mechanism established,
which will also for
adding more detail and
depth to the various
agreements and
compromises made.
Meanwhile, the
Nicaraguan Vice
Chancellor said that the
bi-national meeting has
made evident “the firm
will of both governments
to reactivate and set in
motion their bilateral
work agenda, as well as
reaffirm the
coexistence, friendship
and brotherhood” between
both nations. He added
that “what’s important
now is that we have to
will to base the
relations between our
countries on the concept
of brotherhood, on deep
mutual respect and on
making sure that the
coexistence between both
nations is of much
benefit to both sides.
We are attached by
geography and united by
history, building a
future together.”
The reactivation of
talks between the
Central American
neighbors began in
October 2006, when Costa
Rica promoted an hosted
the Fifth Bilateral
Meeting during the
government of Nicaraguan
President Enrique
Bolaños — after almost a
decade of these meetings
having been discontinued
Later on, when President
Daniel Ortega took over
the helm in Nicaragua,
there were several
meetings held between
him and Costa Rican
President Oscar Arias:
in August 2007 in
Managua, when Arias
attended the celebration
of the 20th anniversary
of the Esquipulas II
Peace Accords that
brought an end to
decades of civil war in
Central America; in
November 2007 in San
Jose, when Ortega paid
an official visit to
Costa Rica; and two
meetings in March 2008,
when Ortega again came
to Costa Rica for a
Central American heads
of state summit and
Arias visited Managua on
the occasion of the
countries’ Sixth
Bilateral Meeting. |
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