Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged Friday in Honduras to help that Central American nation’s efforts to attain orderly migration flows and proceed cooperation support initiatives that date again greater than 4 many years.
Sanchez’s go to to Tegucigalpa to fulfill with President Xiomara Castro within the presidential palace wrapped up a three-nation tour that additionally included stops within the Colombian and Ecuadorian capitals.
He turned the primary Spanish prime minister to go to Honduras since Jose Maria Aznar in 1999.
Each Sanchez and Castro agreed that schooling and employment are key to making sure orderly migration and careworn the significance of an accord signed final 12 months that Spain’s head of presidency known as a milestone within the nations’ diplomatic relations.
That pact facilitated the launch of a pilot mission on round migration, underneath which an preliminary contingent of 250 Honduran employees will journey this 12 months to Spain to work on particular agriculture campaigns and return residence at their conclusion.
Spain had promised at this summer time’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles to double that variety of momentary employees in future campaigns and Sanchez reiterated that pledge on Friday.
Castro, for her half, thanked Spain for the assistance it has supplied her nation up to now and its dedication to providing future help, saying Sanchez’s go to offers an extra enhance to bilateral ties.
The president additionally expressed appreciation for the 280,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses that Spain donated to Honduras.
However Castro additionally took some photographs on the political opposition in her remarks, saying she inherited an “impoverished folks” when she took workplace and hailed the work she has finished through the first seven months of her presidency.
She additionally expressed due to a former Spanish prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, for the political assist he supplied her husband, Manuel Zelaya, when he was ousted in a 2009 coup.
Zelaya was a part of the Honduran delegation that met with members of the Sanchez-led Spanish contingent on the presidential palace.
Throughout Sanchez’s go to, the 2 nations signed an settlement aimed toward strengthening Honduras’ well being care system via technical cooperation and the alternate of finest practices.
Earlier than his talks with the Honduran president, Sanchez met with a bunch of Spanish enterprise leaders with pursuits within the nation to find out about their state of affairs and day-to-day issues.
He additionally met with representatives of Spanish cooperation companies, which have a presence in Honduras relationship again a few years and fund various kinds of tasks.
Sanchez will go to one in every of them – a faculty/workshop arrange within the western metropolis of Comayagua to fight pressured migration – on the ultimate cease of his four-day Latin American tour. EFE
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