The Diplomat
The President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, has confirmed to the Ibero-American Secretary General (SEGIB), Andrés Allamand, her attendance to the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State in the Dominican Republic, which will take place on March 24 and 25.
Castro was received last Thursday by Allamand at the SEGIB headquarters in Madrid, on the occasion of the working visit made this week by the Honduran president. During the meeting, the president expressed her country’s willingness to start the procedures to join the Framework Agreement for the Promotion of the Circulation of Talent in the Ibero-American Space (to which ten Ibero-American countries are already party) and to start the consultation process to join the Ibero-American Initiative to Prevent and Eliminate Violence against Women, approved in Andorra, in 2021.
For Andrés Allamand, the incorporation of Honduras to these two initiatives represents an unequivocal commitment of the country to strengthen the Ibero-American community, on the one hand, as a space for mobility and knowledge transfer that generates opportunities for citizens and, on the other hand, as a region that works against gender violence, for equality and the social, economic and political empowerment of women, in line with the priorities promoted by President Castro.
Within the framework of the meeting, a collaboration agreement was also signed between the Ibero-American Social Security Organization and the Honduran Labor Secretariat, to “deepen” relations with the Social Security institutions of the Central American country. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Honduras, Eduardo Enrique Reina García, underlined that the signing of the agreement is a great step forward for Social Security in Honduras and will make it possible to have “the best of Ibero-American knowledge” in the field of Social Security.
Xiomara Castro paid a working visit to Spain this week, during which she was received by King Felipe VI and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. Her presence in Spain coincided with the signing of a bilateral agreement to improve the migratory situation of Spanish aid workers and with the arrival of 80 of the more than 500 agricultural workers who will move to Spain this year under the agreement on migratory labor flows.
