And the Belize delegation agrees as well - these incidents only aggravate and intensify the hostility between both countries. In fact, Belize's 11 point proposal was sent to defuse all that tension and to try to put an end to those Sarstoon showdown's. But as we told you, Guatemala rejected Belize's proposals and in turn, we rejected their counter proposals which stated that Belize must ask permission to access the Sarstoon River. Well, when we asked Secretary General Almagro about the breakdown in this approach- another fail in trying to reach a peaceful resolution - he told us that a press conference wasn't the place to discuss those issues and that the ongoing negotiations between countries should not be publicized.
H.E. Luis Almagro, Secretary General - OAS
"It's not in our mandate to reveal points of the negotiation. The situation you are referring to is something that happens in the way of the negotiations of the two countries. In any case, I don't think we should have opinion related to negotiations that have not ended and that have not finished. So it's very clear that we should be confidential about that."
And in case you missed it in our top story, the Guatemalan president has today taken things one step further than even their counter proposals. He says that as of today, they are taking a bold protective stance on the border.
President Jimmy Morales
"We have decided that from this moment we shall exercise strict protection of the sovereignty of the Sarstoon River and all the adjacency zone."
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