Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Hold 7th Bilateral
Meeting
(Infocom) — The Costa
Rican Chancellor’s
Office is taking care of
the final details as it
prepares to host the 7th
Bilateral Commission
meeting with neighboring
Nicaragua, on Sept. 12
at the Ministry of
Foreign Relations
headquarters in San José.
“Last June, during a
preliminary meeting that
took place in Liberia,
we made important
strides and now we are
getting ready to host
this seventh bi-national
meeting, as called for
by presidential
agreements,” said
Christian Guillermet,
general director of
foreign policy for the
Chancellor’s Office.
Costa Rican President
Oscar Arias and his
Nicaraguan counterpart,
Daniel Ortega, who met
in Managua last March
14, issued a joint
declaration in which
they agreed to speed up
celebration of their 7th
Bilateral Meeting,
during the second half
of August. The final
date was then moved to
Sept. 12.
“We are expecting close
to 70 participants,
representing the various
governmental
institutions involved
(in this process),” said
Guillermet, who
explained that because
both Arias and
Chancellor Bruno Stagno
are in a tour of Europe,
the Costa Rican
delegation will be
headed by the interim
Foreign Relations
Minister, Edgar Ugalde.
The meeting’s agenda
includes presentation of
a report with revisions
to different accords
signed by Costa Rica and
Nicaragua, while there
will also be reports
about the process of
reactivating the work of
several bilateral
commissions.
Such teams deal with
issues such as
immigration, labor, the
economy, trade, tourism,
politics, cooperation
and development, among
others.
The Bilateral Commission
is a permanent mechanism
for institutional
dialogue seeking to deal
with topics of common
interest between the two
nations.
Costa Rica has also
established bilateral
commissions with Panama,
Chile, Mexico, El
Salvador, as well as
political consultation
processes with Paraguay
and Canada.
Additionally, Costa Rica
is planning to get
underway bilateral
meetings with Guatemala
and Honduras before the
end of this year.
Moreover, Costa Rica and
Argentina held last
Sept. 3-4 in San Jose
the first meeting of
their Bilateral
Cooperation Commission.
Leading that meeting
were the cooperation
directors of both
countries, Circe
Villanueva Monge and
Julia Estela Levi,
respectively.
The bilateral meeting
with the South American
nation allowed officials
to examine cooperation
opportunities in issues
such as health, energy,
education, technology
and telecommunications —
plus institutional
strengthening through
technical assistance by
which specialists from
both countries would
exchange visits with the
goal of participating in
cooperation projects
organized by various
institutions. |
