President Gustavo Petro arrives in Honduras for the CELAC summit

Published at: 28/01/2025 10:18 PM

The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, will arrive this Thursday morning in the capital of Honduras to participate in an extraordinary summit on migration of the Community of American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Honduran Foreign Ministry confirmed .

“We have been in communication with the Colombian Foreign Ministry (...) the intention is that President Petro may be entering national territory early on Thursday to attend the meeting,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Torres, quoted by the Sputnik agency .

The official explained in statements to state channel 8 that the foreign minister, Enrique Reina, has been in contact with his Colombian counterpart, Luis Gilberto Murillo, to coordinate Petro's visit to Tegucigalpa .
The summit was urgently convened last Sunday, the 26th, by the president of Honduras and Pro Tempore of CELAC, Xiomara Castro, with the purpose of analyzing three issues: migration, the environment and Latin American and Caribbean unity.

Mazo News Team