The Diplomat
The Council of Ministers authorized this Tuesday the signing of the agreement between Spain and Honduras regarding the regulation and organization of labor migration flows between both States, coinciding with the imminent arrival in Madrid of the Honduran Minister of Government Coordination (Chief of Cabinet), Carlos Madero, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Lisandro Rosales, and Labor and Social Security, Olvin Villalobos.
As reported by the Council of Ministers, since the beginning of the year 2020, Honduran authorities had requested Spain, on several occasions, the possibility of participating in the program of collective recruitment at origin carried out by the General Directorate of Migration, of the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. The competent Spanish authorities, after evaluating the proposal, decided to respond to the Honduran request, agreeing to the adoption of an international agreement between the two countries on migration flows. Negotiations on the text were carried out between the first months of this year and the beginning of last May, when its final wording was established.
The purpose of the agreement is to regulate in an orderly and coherent manner the labor migration flows between the two States, to deepen the general framework of cooperation and friendship between the two countries and to prevent irregular immigration. The signing will take place in Madrid on the occasion of the visit of Lisandro Rosales, which will take place between today and tomorrow.
During his stay in Spain, Rosales will be received tomorrow by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, with whom he will hold a meeting and a lunch before holding a joint press conference. In addition, Rosales, Villalobos and Carlos Madero will explain today, at the CEOE headquarters, the opportunities and benefits for private investment in the country. The conference, organized by the CEOE, the Secretary of State for Trade, through ICEX Spain Export and Investment, and the Spanish Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with the Embassy of Honduras in Spain, aims to promote investment by Spanish companies with interests in the Honduran market and will be inaugurated by the Secretary of State for Trade, Xiana Méndez; the vice president of CEOE and president of CEPYME, Gerardo Cuerva; and the director general of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce, Inmaculada Riera.
