IV Meeting of the Bze-Guat Joint Commission

The fourth meeting of the Guatemala-Belize Joint Commission was held on Wednesday at the Office of the Organization of American States in the Adjacency Zone. The meeting was to discuss the implementation of the agreement for the Protection of the Environment and Sustainable Use of Resources that Belize and Guatemala signed in December 2014.   A government issued release says the discussions between the two sides were positive and constructive. The delegations committed to finalize a plan of action for the prevention and combating of forest fires and to explore the possibility of a bi-national technical mechanism for the monitoring of water quality. The release goes on to say that the two countries will to work to tackle trafficking in wildlife, mapping and manage the effects of climate change on the forest and natural resources. The commission meets again in 2019. Ambassadors Alexis Rosado and Georges de La Roche were joined by. Manuel Washington Abdala, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the O.A.S.