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Bilateral consultations between the EU and El Salvador
By Eproint
On the margins of the EU-CELAC Summit, on July 2023 the High Representative/Vice-President, Josep Borrell, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, Alexandra Hill Tinoco, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on bilateral consultations between the EU and El Salvador.
The Memorandum lays the foundations for a bilateral dialogue through regular consultations between Brussels and El Salvador to exchange on topics and issues of mutual interest.
High Representative Josep Borrell stressed: "The EU, through its extensive cooperation, is accompanying El Salvador on its path towards more inclusive and sustainable development in key areas such as the digital transformation and green transition. We stand by El Salvador in taking forward a historic opportunity to advance a positive and sustainable transformation agenda.”
According to Borrell, El Salvador has an important role in the region this year as Presidency pro tempore of the Central American Integration System (SICA) and the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA).
SICA is the institutional framework of Regional Integration in Central America, created by El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. Subsequently, Belize joined afterwards as a full member; in 2013, The Dominican Republic did likewise. SICA’s General Secretariat headquarters are located in El Salvador.
One of the goals of the recently signed agreement is to continue working on increasing the efficiency of customs procedures and providing for stronger intellectual property rights for import and/or export of products.
Both parties have reaffirmed commitments to the TRIPS agreement and the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and accords them both national treatment and most favoured nation (MFN) treatment.
Last year the European Union and its Central American partners celebrated the 10th anniversary of the signature of the EU-Central America Association Agreement and agreed to further deepen the agreement by protecting eleven new geographical indications from Central America.
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