Shoman looks for win-win solution

While the diplomats were all smiles, and hostilities seemed to melt as fast as a snow cone at the Agricultural Show, nobody in the room was foolish enough to believe that a settlement of the century and a half old dispute would be easy. The reality of negotiations dictates that there be give and take on both sides. With Belize having precious little to give, Ambassador Shoman suggested that it may be time to look at the problem from a new win-win perspective.

Assad Shoman

“In our case, what we have is two countries living side by side and we are destined to remain that way. There are many things that unite us. Today in this globalisation process that is taking place, and that is not going to be reversed in a hurry, frontiers are becoming to be less and less important. What is more important is how people relate to one another, how markets relate to one another, how we can cooperate really to… because the objective of both of us, on both sides surely, is for the integral development of our peoples, to make our people happy, through social, economic and all types of development. And that is the important thing, how can we reach some type of agreement where we can live in peace and where we can work together for the good of both our peoples.”