El Salvador minister calls on ACS Secretary General in Trinidad
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| Published on Friday, April 13, 2007 |
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: The Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Dr Rubén Silié Valdez, received a courtesy call from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, Francisco Laínez Rivas, at the ACS Secretariat in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
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| ACS Secretary General, Rubén Silié (left) welcomes Salvadorian Foreign Minister Francisco Laínez (at right). Looking on is ACS Political Adviser, Watson Denis. |
Minister Laínez was on official mission to Trinidad and Tobago, and took the opportunity to meet with Secretary General Silié in an effort to further deepen ties between the Association and El Salvador, an ACS Member State.
Also participating in the meeting were El Salvador's Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Carlos Mauricio Pineda Cruz and ACS Political Adviser, Dr Watson Denis.
The Minister underscored El Salvador's willingness to support the ACS in achieving its goals of regional integration, working through the areas of trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters and expressed great interest in the projects being undertaken by the organisation. He took special note of developments in the ACS Multidestination Tourism programme, especially, he said, since Central America was currently working on the implementation of a similar plan.
El Salvador's recently established Embassy in Port of Spain emphasises that country's efforts to strengthen ties with the Greater Caribbean region, and in particular with CARICOM nations, and Laínez was emphatic in his meeting with the Secretary General, and later with the Secretariat staff, that the Association could count on El Salvador and its resident Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, to support the organisation's work towards advancing the regional cooperation and integration process. | | | | Reads : 2 |
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