The OAS Secretary General, Chilean,
Jose Miguel Insulza and the Foreign Ministers from Guatemala and Belize, Harold
Caballeros and Wilfred Elrington, respectively, initiated a working reunion to
refine the details on the Referendum that will be carried out by both countries
on October of next year.
The objective of the one day meeting
which was carried out behind closed doors at the headquarters of the ministry
of Foreign Affairs in Guatemala, was to “refine the details on the referendum”
in which the decision of both countries regarding the territorial litigation
that they maintain for over a century will be submitted before the
International Court of Justice, said a source from the Guatemalan Ministry.
Although from 1991 Guatemala
recognized Belize’s independence, they still claim close to fifty percent of
territory from the former Britannic Colony, which with the mediation of the
OAS, both States agreed to clarify before the International Criminal Court
based in La Haya.
Also, the source said, it is also
expected that a report from the OAS on the violent incidents that have been
registered this year in the designated adjacency zone between both countries,
which marks the undefined border between both nations and has claimed the life
of at least four Guatemalan farmers will be made known.
“The result of the discussions will
be released by Secretary Insulza and the Foreign Ministers during a press
conference” the source specified.
After the meeting with the
ministers, the OAS Secretary General will reunite in private with the
Guatemalan president, Otto Perez Molina, in which it is expected that they will
dialogue on the preparations for the General Assembly of that hemispheric body
which will be celebrated in the colonial city of Antigua Guatemala in 2013.
Via the San Pedro Sun.com
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