The Central American integration process has been moving slowly but consistently. They are now 50 years since the signing of the General Treaty of Integration, and if one turns to look back will have mixed feelings as to the progress and obstacles of the same.
One of the latest developments in this regard is the power of the Plenary Assembly of the Central American Parliament, to request reports from the different instances of the System of Central American Integration, SICA, it which still fails to legislate or to give precise instructions, but it is a step forward and enables us to all political parties represented in it, there are many, find out what is being done or what has been omitted to do, but even enables us to redirecting the process where it is believed to be made.
To sample, the intervention had in the first historic meeting of this nature, which was received on 24 February 2011, the report of the Secretary General of SICA, Juan Daniel German, which, with minor corrections , especially of punctuation, I have taken the Journal of Debates of that date.
"Welcome to the Plenary Assembly, John Daniel. I am pleased, first of all, say that the General Secretariat of SICA is in the hands of a professional with an ethical vision of the processes that first. I think it's important that our institutions, especially the highest, which refers to the administration of the Central American Integration System, is in the hands of people with some degree of morality and vision in everything that is happening.
That said, I turn to two important aspects of this process, ending with a question. One of them concerns the role that the Protocol of Tegucigalpa (which this year celebrates twenty years) gives the General Secretariat of SICA. That is the legal framework that gave it life and contemplates its powers, and one of them is that independence or freedom of opinion that, at least, is in theory. I mean it, because one of the major problems facing the integration process is the lack of legality, and it is my opinion that those who first come violating Integration Agreements are the same Presidents in their decisions. I wonder what role they are playing the General Secretariat, which is held by a lawyer who knows the legal framework in this regard, because also the Secretary General (under the Protocol of Tegucigalpa) has the powers, has the obligation to serve as Secretariat Technical Meeting of Presidents, but those meetings are going illegalities within the system.
For example: It may be possible that after Panama, through its Constitutional President decides to withdraw from one of the bodies of integration, the Presidents come and put him on a silver platter incorporated into another part of the system, because that would suits to Panama, where the Tegucigalpa Protocol provides that the Central American Integration System is unitary and irreversible, then there is a clear violation of the decisions of the Presidents of the Republics, gathered at the Meeting of Presidents, despite the redundancy, supported by the Technical Secretariat of the General Secretariat of SICA. This is not suitable for anyone and is one of the major issues that our partners Europe do not understand our way of doing things in the region. That's one side.
other hand, the issue of Costa Rica, which denies the jurisdiction of the Central American Court of Justice, because the judgments of the Court did not agree, but it gets to be part of another aspect of integration, with the consent of the Presidents. So, I understand that Costa Rica does not want to be part of Parliament, because he has not completed that process, but there are parts of the legal framework, I feel that the General Secretariat of the system, as Technical Secretariat of the Meeting of Presidents, is required make them see, with that independence of mind, to the Presidents, because they commit illegalities at the highest level and that is not appropriate.
The example posed by Rep. Dougherty, the controversial replacement of the Secretariat of Economic Integration, second secretary; not healthy for the system we are with illegal after illegal, giving overtones that everything is well done and everything is legal . And I think that part, the Secretary General of SICA, which now can be supported by the Plenary Assembly of the Parliament has an important role to play, and instead of seeing only what has been done, I bring this subject up , because from now on I want the integration process was perfectly framed within the law and that when a President, whimsical as it is, comes with one of these new stories to the Meeting of Presidents, there's someone inside, with courage and independence of mind to say, 'This is not true, this can not be do, this will be questioned at the Plenary Assembly of the Central American Parliament, there is a whole public that will support made it illegal "to try to prosecute him on that path.
On the other hand, I see that there are fifty years behind the integration building to come and when I saw the list of projects he has worked with the General Secretariat of SICA, and are successful, such as lobster, regional purchases of medicine and all that I'm thinking a bit, as deputy Bushey says: that this process of integration is not actually reaches ordinary people.
Just yesterday or the day before, was talking to one of the deputies Hondurans who came by land, on the illegalities that he had to see the point of customs known as 'El Florido' side of Guatemala, illegal levies that make people passing on foot, and in fifty years we have not even the free movement of people, at most we get is the project that the juxtaposition SIECA the border, the only thing he did was put all officials of the two countries border point in the same building, but continue with the same procedures and not rethink the processes that help ordinary people to feel that something benefits the entire integration process and all these white elephants, as you mentioned from the beginning, imagine anything General Secretariat of SICA, as glue and all, and the same Parliament, say anything and can not imagine the efforts that are made here to reach the ordinary people, but all those hairy hands that lie ahead somehow or other keep all of the effort made to reach the integration takes place, but something must be done.
I think, Mr. Secretary, that you in the General Secretariat System are as most able to implement something that really reaches the people who are waiting for results.
And finally, to ask now that the Republic of Honduras made the deposit of the fifth instrument of ratification of the Protocol of Amendment to the Treaty establishing the powers given to us that we have called binding (which really are not yet) you as Secretary General We sent a note indicating that it was in effect for such and such countries, but excluded Panama. I wonder on what basis the General Secretariat of excluded from the overall implementation of the Protocol of Amendment to the Treaty establishing PARLACEN, the Republic of Panama. Thank you very much. "
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