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Last Updated: Feb 2, 2012 - 10:55:20 PM |
 The
Secretary for Multidimensional Security of the Organization of American
States (OAS), Ambassador Adam Blackwell, met this week with
representatives of the government of Honduras with the objective of
studying support initiatives for helping the Central American country
formulate security policies.
“We are working on diagnosing the security and justice situation in
Honduras, and in upcoming weeks we will submit to the Government a
proposal to strengthen the security system,” said Ambassador Blackwell.
During
his visit, the OAS representative held meetings with Foreign Minister
Arturo Corrales, with the Minister of Security, Pompeyo Bonilla, and
with the Rector of the Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), Julieta
Castellanos, who is playing an outstanding role in reforming the
security policies of her country.
Before Ambassador Blackwell’s visit, a group of experts from the OAS
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security undertook a mission to
evaluate the national citizen security system of Honduras. Towards that
goal, the group interviewed hundreds of public officials and visited
police headquarters, prisons and offices of the Judicial System in
various cities of the country.
“Not only do we make a diagnosis of the work of police but also of
prosecuting attorneys and of the entire system and the way they work
together, because you can have the best police in the world but if there
is no prosecutor’s office, then you have problems,” added the head of
the OAS Secretariat for Multidimensional Security.
In addition to visiting Honduras, Ambassador Blackwell visited and
met with government authorities of the following countries: Guatemala,
Costa Rica, and Belize, and towards the end of the week he plans to
visit El Salvador.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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