Belize to Benefit from New Agreement with Taiwan

Belize and Taiwan have shared diplomatic relations since 1989, and since then, our ties have only grown stronger. And while there are additional areas of cooperation that are currently under discussion between our two countries, just this week, Belize signed a new agreement as part of a regional initiative with Taiwan, as Minister Fonseca shared.

 

Francis Fonseca, Minister of Foreign Affairs

“Taiwan provides tremendous support to Belize in many different areas. in education, in health, in agriculture economic support. So we are discussing a number of projects, but we – those are still at the discussion stage. And we look forward to new opportunities for engagement. Just, This week, our CEO, her Excellency, Amalia Mai was in Guatemala, where you had an agreement signed between Taiwan and SICA to provide support to SICA, so a number – I think about seven projects are under that agreement in many different areas. So Belize and Guatemala will benefit from those projects in meaningful ways.”