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02TEGUCIGALPA3140
2002-11-18 22:53:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Tegucigalpa
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HONDURAS SUPPORTS MEXICO'S CARIBBEAN MARITIME

Tags:  PBTS PREL ETRD HO 
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UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 003140 

SIPDIS

DEPT. FOR OES/OA, L/OES, WHA/CEN, WHA/CAR, AND WHA/MEX

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PBTS PREL ETRD HO
SUBJECT: HONDURAS SUPPORTS MEXICO'S CARIBBEAN MARITIME
BOUNDARY INITIATIVE; MFA GIVES UPDATE ON PENDING BORDER
DISPUTES

REF: STATE 214982

UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 003140

SIPDIS

DEPT. FOR OES/OA, L/OES, WHA/CEN, WHA/CAR, AND WHA/MEX

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PBTS PREL ETRD HO
SUBJECT: HONDURAS SUPPORTS MEXICO'S CARIBBEAN MARITIME
BOUNDARY INITIATIVE; MFA GIVES UPDATE ON PENDING BORDER
DISPUTES

REF: STATE 214982


1. PolOff discussed Mexico's Caribbean maritime boundary
initiative (reftel) November 5 with MFA DG for Foreign Policy
AMB Mario Fortin. Fortin said that the GOH had attended the
first conference in May and welcomed the Mexican initiative.
(Fortin told PolOff November 18 that the GOH had "registered"
its Caribbean boundary disputes with Mexico.)


2. Fortin said November 5 that with respect to Honduras'
boundary dispute with Nicaragua, the GOH was only using the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) process, and not the
Mexican initiative. Post notes that although the overall
issue of the Honduran-Nicaraguan Caribbean border is still
pending, the ICJ recently ruled in favor of the GOH's
petition against Nicaragua's 35 percent tariff on Honduran
imports.


3. Fortin said that the GOH had negotiations underway with
CUBA and Jamaica on boundary disputes, had recently completed
negotiations with the United Kingdom on the Grand Cayman
Islands, and had helped support the OAS process of
negotiations between Guatemala and Belize.


4. In addition, Fortin noted that the ICJ had yet to rule on
El Salvador's September 10 request for a revision of the 1992
ICJ ruling that laid out shared areas of control in the Gulf
of Fonseca and established the land border between Honduras
and El Salvador.
PALMER