On last week Friday's newscast, we showed you our interview with US Ambassador Carlos Moreno, who revealed that the OAS investigation into the fatal Chiquibul shooting has been completed by the Independent investigating team.
Well the Government sent out a statement less than 10 minutes ago confirming it. That late evening statement says, quote, "(GOB) has received confirmation from Secretary-General of the OAS. Luis Almagro, that the formal investigation into the incident in which the Guatemalan minor, Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano, has been concluded." End quote.
The Government press release continues to explain that Secretary General Almagro wrote to Foreign Affairs Minister Wilfred Elrington saying, quote, "the forensic experts that the Governments of the United States of America and Mexico put at their disposal to carry out this investigation have completed their duties and prepared a joint exhaustive report on the matter…" End quote.
Almagro is expected to make a formal comment tomorrow, and in the meantime, a meeting with the Group of Friends of Belize and Guatemala has been convened by the OAS Sec. Gen. for tomorrow morning at the OAS Headquarters in Washington D.C.
The Government statement says that Ambassadors Pat Andrews and Alexis Rosado will represent Belize at that meeting. Its purpose, according to the Government, is to quote, "...share with the Group of Friends, the most recent advances in the Belize-Guatemala process directed at finding a peaceful and permanent solution to the centuries-old dispute. It is expected that at this meeting the OAS and the Belizean and Guatemalan Governments will be reaching out to the donor community to request financial support for the maintenance of the OAS office in the Adjacency Zone." End quote.
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