🇹🇼🇧🇿🇬🇹 Taiwan FM visits Central America

Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung on Sunday departed with a business delegation for Belize and Guatemala, two of Taipei’s diplomatic partners in Central America, according to a statement from Taiwan’s foreign ministry. In Belize, Lin is scheduled to meet Governor-General Froyla Tzalam, Prime Minister John Briceño, and Foreign and Foreign Trade Minister Francis Fonseca; in Guatemala, he will meet President Bernardo Arévalo and Foreign Minister Carlos Ramiro Martínez.

The visit combines diplomatic engagement with project inspection and economic outreach. In Belize, Lin will inspect a hospital construction project in San Pedro, the planned site of the Taiwan-Caribbean Prosperity Academy, and a 50-home social housing plan, while also set to sign a joint communique and a diplomatic training and exchange agreement; in Guatemala, he will officiate at the reopening of renovated foreign ministry space and the launch of an airport surveillance, emergency response and incident control center, and inspect the planned site of a cancer specialty hospital.

Taipei said expanding business opportunities is a central purpose of the trip, with economic cooperation meetings and business matching events planned in both countries. Taiwan currently has 12 diplomatic allies, seven of them in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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