Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, Samuel Santos, and of the Republic of Haiti, Pierre Richard Casimir, have met yesterday in Managua, Nicaragua, and discussed in order to make progress the bilateral relations.

After having received its counterpart of Caribbean to the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Managua, Santos has expressed the willingness of President Daniel Ortega, to strengthen the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two nations.

During the meeting, ministers discussed common themes, among which was highlighted the incorporation of Haiti as an observer in the U.S. Central American Integration System (Sistema de Integración Centroamericana - SICA). Whose XL Summit of Heads of State and Government was held in the afternoon of Thursday.

Another aspect discussed at the meeting was related to the upcoming Summit of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), the next July in Haiti, indicated the Chancellery. The ACS is an organization of consultation, of cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean.

Haiti is one of its members with Nicaragua, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica , Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Also participated in the regional mechanism, as observers, Aruba, Curacao and France on behalf of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin.

Haiti observer member of the SICA

We have just learned that Haiti became observer member of the SICA, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Haiti, Pierre Richard Casimir, thanked yesterday afternoon for the vote in favor of the inclusion of his country as an observer in the U.S. Central American Integration System (Sistema de Integración Centroamericana - SICA).

Speaking at the XL Summit of Heads of State and Government of the regional mechanism, Casimir pointed out the relationship between his country and the countries of the region ; shared the willingness of the government Martelly-Lamothe to strengthen alongside their Central American counterparts of projects that will benefit the peoples of these nations. The day culminated in the creation of a free trade zone that will promote intraregional trade of goods.

The SICA grouping Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, was created in December 1991 and began operations in February 1993 as an institutional framework for regional integration in America Central.

S/ HaitiLibre