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US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton announced Wednesday that she
will visit El Salvador and Honduras in early
June.
"I will be traveling to the region again
later this month to attend the inauguration
of the president-elect in El Salvador ....
and to attend the OAS general assembly in
Honduras," Clinton said.
The inauguration of El Salvador's
president-elect Mauricio Funes is due for
June 1, while the Organization of American
States ministerial meeting is scheduled for
June 2-3 in San Pedro Sula.
This will be Clinton's third trip to Latin
America since she became chief US diplomat
in January; she traveled to Mexico at the
end of March before visiting Haiti, the
Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago
last month.
She accompanied President Barack Obama for
the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and
Tobago.
In Brasilia, a Brazilian foreign ministry
official told AFP on Tuesday that Clinton
may visit Brazil late this month.
"The possibility exists," according to the
official, who declined to be named because
the meeting was not yet confirmed.
"The US secretary of state has been invited
by (Foreign) Minister Celso Amorim and now
the visit depends on us getting their
agendas to coincide. The dates 27 and 28 of
May are possible," the official added.
If Clinton does make the trip, it would
signal an uptick in US attention towards
Latin America's biggest economy, which is
being actively wooed by several states with
which Washington has uneasy relations.
Clinton on May 1 expressed concern over
"disturbing" Iranian and Chinese inroads
into Latin America and said she was keen on
more engagement.
"We are competing for attention and
relationships with at least the Russians,
the Chinese, the Iranians," she said. |
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