Central American
Parliament to Meet in
Panama
The Central American
Parliament (PARLACEN)
Integration and
Political commissions
will hold meetings in
Panama this year,
according to a schedule
published in this
capital.
A spokesman of the
regional authority told
La Prensa daily the
first of those groups
has scheduled its
meeting for May.
According to the daily,
Panama has been one of
the countries, together
with Costa Rica that has
shown resistance to the
integration issue, and
this session has the
intention of
contributing to
agreement about the
issue.
The newspaper also said
this step is a
requirement by the
European Community to
make viable an economic
cooperation agreement
with the region.
Panamanian PARLACEN
members met on Friday
National Assembly
President Pedro Miguel
Gonzalez to talk about
the meeting, the source
said.
The spokesman announced
that the PARLACEN
Political Commission and
representative of 52
parties of the six
Central American
countries will meet in
this capital in August.
They will propose at the
meeting that the
National Assembly
recognize that the
PARLACEN agreements are
of a binding nature,
which was approved at
the Central American
Presidential Summit on
March, he said. |
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