Costa Rica’s Deputy Foreign Minister Meets With Mexico About Situation Of Cuban Migrants

Costa Rica's Deputy Foreign Minister Meets With Mexico About Situation
Of Cuban Migrants / 14ymedio
Posted on December 2, 2015

14ymedio (with information from EFE), Mexico, 1 December 2015 — The
Deputy Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, Alejandro Solano, met Tuesday in
Mexico City with Socorro Flores. Mexico's Deputy Foreign Minister for
Latin America and the Caribbean, with whom he discussed issues of
bilateral relations, including the results of the meeting held in El
Salvador on 24 November on the situation of Cuban migrants, according to
the Mexican Foreign Ministry.

Solano is in Mexico participating in the 2015 Fourth Meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Mesoamerica Project, also attended by
representatives of other governments in the region. Taking advantage of
his stay in the country, the two held a working breakfast, according to
a statement by the Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretariat (SRE).

At that meeting, the Secretary reiterated "the solidarity of Mexico with
Costa Rica" and its willingness to "evaluate measures that could help
resolve the situation within the framework of Mexican law."

Both officials agreed to remain in contact on the offered an opportunity
to review progress in implementing the Declaration of the XV Summit of
the Mechanism of Dialogue and Agreement of Tuxtla and agree on actions
to be taken next year. The report also presented the results of the
Joint for the first half of 2015, which was headed by Mexico and the
Dominican Republic.

The Executive Director of the Mexican Agency for International
Cooperation on Development (AMEXCID), María Eugenia Casar, noted that
"the Mesoamerica Project represents an excellent vehicle for cooperation
and political dialogue to bring the countries of the region closer,
being a truly collective effort."

Created in 2008, the Mesoamerica Project is a mechanism of technical and
political dialogue that seeks to build consensus, articulate cooperation
efforts, and attract resources to strengthen the Mesoamerican process of
integration and development, with the aim of improving the quality of
life for 226 million people.

The SRE corrected information released to some media on Monday by the
Costa Rican Deputy Minster, which reported that the Mexican Deputy
Secretary and the Guatemalan Deputy Foreign Minister, Carlos Ramiro
Martinez, would meet in Mexico." There has been no meeting between Costa
Rica, Guatemala and Mexico to address the issue of Cuban migrants who
are currently in Costa Rica," he said.

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