This morning, Belize's Foreign Minister, Eamon Courtenay, held his first bilateral meeting with his Guatemalan counterpart, Pedro Brolo Vila. That meeting happened at the OAS adjacency zone office at the Benque Viejo border.
A joint press release says, quote, "The two foreign ministers exchanged updates in the efforts to strengthen bilateral relations between Belize and Guatemala and agreed to reactivate the Belize-Guatemala Joint Commission." End quote.
After all the official talks were completed, the 2 foreign ministers went down to take a look at the border marker between the two countries that's right down the hill from the Adjacency Zone office.
We'll have a more detailed look at this bilateral meeting tomorrow, but for tonight, here's an excerpt of the press conference they held at midday:
This morning's meeting is the first between the foreign ministers since their respective government administrations were elected to office.
