GUATEMALA: GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT OSCAR BERGER AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER RIGOBERTO MENCHU MEET FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC.

Record ID: 350439

  • Title: GUATEMALA: GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT OSCAR BERGER AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER RIGOBERTO MENCHU MEET FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC.
  • Date: 28th May 2004
  • Summary: (W1) GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA (MAY 27, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. GV: ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE JACQUES CHIRAC AND GUATEMALA OSCAR BERGER WITH RIGOBERTA MENCHU AT THE NATIONAL PALACE 0.09 2. TV: WIDE SHOT OF THE ARRIVAL 0.18 3. MV: PRESIDENT GREETING RIGOBERTA MENCHU AND SON 0.30 4. GV: WIDE SHOT OF GREETINGS 0.35 5. (SOUN
  • Embargoed: 12th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA
  • Country: Guatemala
  • Reuters ID: LVA8FNKJ0WUXMNGJ46AJ0GAMBHV
  • Story Text: French President Jacques Chirac meets with
    Guatemalan President Oscar Berger and Nobel Peace Prize
    winner Rigoberta Menchu.




    French President Jacques Chirac met with Guatemalan
    President Oscar Berger and Nobel Peace Prize winner
    Rigoberta Menchu on Wednesday (May 27).

    Chirac arrived in Guatemala on Tuesday (May 26) for the
    official state visit and stated his great appreciation for
    the culture.

    "In this land of Quetzal (Guatemala's national bird),
    of the Men of Corn (name that Mayans call themselves, also
    book by Miguel Angel Asturias) and of Popol Vuh (Mayan holy
    book), this compendium of cosmogony and thought of the
    Maya-Quiches of Guatemala, of the homeland of (national
    hero and writer) Rafael Landivar and of (poet, indigenous
    activist and Nobel prize winner in literature) Miguel Angel
    Asturias in this new democratic Guatemala, which is
    building in the foundations that constitute the peace
    accord and is headed toward regional integration, in this
    country," Chirac said, "I once again bring the greetings
    and support of France."
    He stopped in Guatemala on his way to Mexico to attend
    a European Union-Latin America Summit to be held in
    Guadalajara on Friday (May 28).

    Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu said she
    appreciated the state visit and had high hopes for the
    summit.

    "To me, in the first place, he is a great friend from
    many years ago," she said. "That he come to Guatemala
    before the Guadalajara summit I think is very good and very
    important. I hope the Guadalajara summit can defend the
    agenda of the indigenous people, the agenda of the
    communities and, above all, the development of the
    countryside."
    France has a long history of supporting the democratic
    governments of Guatemala and is one of the country's
    greatest providers of aid.


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