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Guatemala to reopen embassy in Jakarta
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Foreign Ministry acting spokesman Teuku Faizasyah talks to reporters on Thursday, July 18. (ANTARA/Yashinta Difa)
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uatemalan Deputy Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Carranza Cifuentes will visit Indonesia on Friday to meet with his counterpart AM Fachir to discuss a plan to reopen its embassy in Jakarta, which was closed 26 years ago when Guatemala plunged into political and economic instability.
The Foreign Ministry’s acting spokesperson, Teuku Faizasyah, said the Central American country opened the embassy in Jakarta in 1990 when it started diplomatic relations with Indonesia.
"However, due to the country’s [Guatemala's] economic conditions, the embassy was closed in 1993," he said in a press briefing on Thursday.
"So the visit [on Friday] will discuss the possibility of reopening the embassy in Indonesia,” Faizasyah added.
The two countries, he said, were expecting the embassy to be reopened before September, and Indonesia considered the plan a positive step as it had shown Guatemala acknowledged Indonesia's role in both bilateral and regional affairs.
Also on Friday, Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi will receive a visit from her Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics, during which they are expected to discuss economic cooperation and efforts to increase trade and people-to-people contact, in addition to speeding up negotiations on visa-free access for holders of diplomatic passports.
