Earlier this week, Foreign Minister Francis Fonseca wrapped up a two-day visit to the Organization of American States headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was a high-level trip packed with important conversations, from border security to the fallout over the cancelled Millennium Challenge Corporation grant. That grant, worth a staggering one hundred and twenty-five million U.S. dollars, was scrapped back in April after the Trump administration shut down the program. Fonseca sat down with foreign representatives to discuss what this means for Belize and where we go from here. He shared some insight into those meetings.
Francis Fonseca, Minister of Foreign Affairs
“ I also had meetings with congressman, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs house committee Congressman Meeks, Gregory Meeks of New York. And I had a meeting with the Chairman of the Republican, chairman of the House Committee for Foreign Affairs Congressman Mass, Chairman Mass. And again, there we talked about the different challenges Belize was facing. We discussed issues that we wanted their support with, including the MCC issue. Belize, Guatemala, we talked about as well. In many different areas of support that we could work on and collaborate on together. So that I found, again very useful.”
