Weekly Report - 09 October 2014 (WR-14-40)

EL SALVADOR | Boosting ties with Taiwan. On 2 October El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Hugo Martínez met his Taiwanese peer, David Yung-lo Lin, in Taipei. The two inked a deal to strengthen bilateral ties over the next five years in areas such as education, health, public security and environmental protection. During his three-day visit to Taiwan, Martínez also met President Ma Ying-jeou and Premier Jiang Yi-huah and sought to promote El Salvador as an attractive destination for investment. The trip, which comes just three months after President Ying-jeou’s visit to El Salvador, is the first by a Salvadorean minister since the new Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén took office in June. It comes amid signs of closer trade ties between El Salvador and mainland China, despite the fact that, along with the rest of Central America bar Costa Rica, El Salvador maintains diplomatic ties with Taipei rather than Beijing (see our sister publication Central America & Caribbean Regional Report [RC-14-10] for more details).

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