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SICA Will Have Greater Presence In Belize
posted (March 30, 2012)
The Central American Integration System, SICA will be making its presence more pronounced in Belize. That is after SICA Secretary General visited with Belize's foreign minister, Wilfred Elrington.

Elrington explained that he would wish to see SCIA become as well known as CARICOM in Belize:..

Hon. Sedi Elrington
"We think it is exceedingly important that the Belizean public know much more about what is going on between Belize and SICA. It's an integration movement similar to what is happening in Caricom."

"We are very convinced that we can't have a real integration movement unless the people, the ordinary people in the society are fully aware of what is being done at every step of the way."

Dr. Juan Daniel Aleman Gurdian, New Secretary General of SICA
"I think this working visit is oriented to obtain and to read the interest of Belize in the Central American System and of course to make compatible the national interest of Belize with the regional interest of SICA."

Hon. Sedi Elrington
"The initiative is to set up two sub-regional offices here in Belize to strengthen the work of SICA as it relates to Caricom."

Secretary General Gurdian was also pressed to comment on the controversial meeting convened last week in Guatemala by President Otto Perez Molina.

The meeting was not a SICA meeting - though all Central American Countries were invited. That caused a little diplomatic stir, but nothing like the seismic shudder felt when Perez Molina suggested that decriminalization of the use and transshipment of all illicit drugs in central America.

Secretary General Gurdian stumbled a bit on this one, and said he had no comment:..

Dr. Juan Daniel Aleman Gurdian, New Secretary General of SICA
"I am not going to comment because this is a matter for the leadership for Central America. I prefer not to speak further than the initiative. It is totally understandable that one person of SICA system wants to speak about one initiative, of course."

SICA will have its own meeting on April 11th and 12th - where security issues including drug trafficking are expected to be discussed. That meeting precedes the summit of the Americas 2012 which will be held on April 14th and 15th in Colombia. The issue of decriminalization of illicit drugs is also expected to come up at that meeting.

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