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The Fourteenth Japan-Central America Forum for "Dialogue and Cooperation" and the Third Meeting of Japan-SICA Working Team for the Promotion of Cooperation and the Economic Exchange

July 5, 2011
Japanese

  1. The Fourteenth Japan-Central America Forum for "Dialogue and Cooperation" meeting will be held on Thursday, July 7 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

  2. This vice-ministerial meeting has been held since 1995, alternately in Japan and in one of Central American countries (El Salvador, Belize, Costa-Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama). Mr. Koro Bessho, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Masashi Mizukami, Director-General, Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and vice-ministers of the Central American countries will participate in the forum to discuss the relationship between Japan and Central America and challenges the international society is facing.

  3. The Third Meeting of Japan-SICA (Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana / Central American Integration System) Working Team for the Promotion of Cooperation and the Economic Exchange will also be held on this occasion. Participants in this meeting will discuss various measures to strengthen the economic relationship between Japan and Central America.

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  The Meeting of Japan-SICA Working Team for the Promotion of Cooperation and the Economic Exchange was established in the Japan-Central America Foreign Ministers' Meeting in January 2010. The meeting consists of experts from Japan and Central America and makes proposals for strengthening the economic relationship between Japan and Central America to the governments of these states.

    • (* This is a provisional translation. The above date denotes the date of the issue of the original press release in Japanese.)
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