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OAS Secretary General Met with Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

  January 20, 2015

OAS Secretary General Met with Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
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The Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands, Lilianne Ploumen, received the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, in her office in the Hague.

During the meeting, Minister Ploumen highlighted Secretary General Insulza´s work at the head of the OAS, during what she called a decade of significant change for Latin America and the Caribbean. For his part, Insulza expressed his gratitude for the strategic support of the Netherlands to the OAS, especially in projects like the Judicial Facilitators Program and the Mission to Support the Peace Process (MAPP) in Colombia.

Both officials also exchanged views on the political situation in the region, the operation of the Inter-American System and especially the next Summit of the Americas, to be held in April in Panama.

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: FNE-16774