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Foreign Chancellor of the Republic, Mario Canahuati, has decided to take an inventory of the various Honduran embassies and consulate offices in the United States, Mexico and Panama.

A commission composed of members of the High Court of Auditors (TSC), Prosecutor, and Chancery will travel tomorrow to meet and receive the consulates and ambassadors in Mexico, the United States and Panama.

Canahuati said that today he will appoint those consulates and ambassadors, and that by early next week he expects the operations in those offices to be normalizing “for the benefit of our citizens, and logically to begin the process of investing in the image of the country, and strengthening diplomatic relations” with those nations.

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Official Communication from the Honduran Government on Dec. 10, 2009, on the granting of asylum to Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales:

English interpretation: (Spanish follows)

SECRETARY OF FOREIGN RELATIONS
THE REPUBLIC OF HONDURAS
COMMUNICATION

The Secretary of Foreign Relations national opinion and international communication:

1. On this date at the initiative of Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, who is
located in the offices of the Government of Brazil in Tegucigalpa, the
Government of Mexico presented to the Chancery of the Republic an application for passage.

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Mexico has begun negotiations with several Central American countries to merge its three individual Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with them into a single one, Mexican Economy Minister Eduardo Sojo said Friday.

Mexico will promote regional integration with Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, which is expected to facilitate trade by harmonizing rules and different procedures, and also reduce operation costs, said Sojo.

Mexico signed FTAs with Costa Rica, Nicaragua and the Northern Triangle nations (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) in 1995, 1998 and 2001 respectively .

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The Honduran cardinal has denounced the US plans for construction of a wall along the country’s border with Mexico.

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa said that it is ironic the North American Free Trade Agreement allows free movement of merchandise across national boundaries, but the wall is an effort to block the movement of humans. He predicted that the construction project would fail to stop the flow of immigrants entering the US illegally.

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