Secretary Clinton Heads to El Salvador, Honduras

Clinton departs for trip to the Americas. Photo courtesy of State Dept.

Secretary of State Clinton will be traveling again, this time to El Salvador and Honduras. From the State Dept. website:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to El Salvador and Honduras from May 31 to June 2.

Secretary Clinton will travel to El Salvador to attend the presidential inauguration of Mauricio Funes on June 1. While in El Salvador, the Secretary also will attend a ministerial meeting of Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas. The Secretary will then travel to Honduras to lead the U.S. delegation to the Organization of American States General Assembly in San Pedro Sula on June 2.

At the General Assembly, Secretary Clinton will meet with her counterparts from the other member nations of the Organization of American States to discuss the theme “Toward a Culture of Non-Violence,” as well as continue the dialogue on issues identified at the 2009 Summit of the Americas, including promoting human prosperity, energy security, and environmental sustainability.

For more info. on the Organization of American States, check out there official website, here.

Some are speculating that during her trip, Secretary Clinton will be pressed on issues involving US relations with Cuba:

Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries, a State Department official said Sunday.

The communist government notified the U.S. on Saturday that it had accepted an administration overture made May 22 to restart the immigration talks, suspended by President George W. Bush after the last meeting in 2003. Cuba also expressed a willingness to cooperate with the U.S. on fighting terrorism and drug trafficking, and on hurricane disaster preparedness.

The official, who spoke to reporters just before Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton left on a trip to El Salvador and Honduras, said the Cuban response was a positive development and “clear signal” that the administration and the Havana government are willing to engage.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the time and place for the resumed talks have not been determined.

For the record, I think dialogue (followed by action) with Cuba is long-overdue, so hopefully the Secretary will make some headway on this issue during her trip.

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