Costa Rica expects answers about entry into the OECD

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Costa Rica has made efforts to join the OECD on taxation for example

Minister of foreign trade, Anabel González, participates this week at the headquarters of the Organization for cooperation and economic development (OECD) in Paris, France, in order to ensure that Costa Rica should be incorporated into the Forum.

The OECD on the other hand, is in final discussions on a possible extension of this organization; in recent years it has been contemplating the entry of eight potential candidates, among them Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Latvia and Lithuania.

Since 2010 Costa Rica began its approach to the OECD, promoted by the Government of current President Laura Chinchilla; as part of this approach is promoted the participation of the Central American country in various forums, committees and working groups.

The participation of Costa Rica is mainly guided by the Minister of foreign trade, Anabel Gonzalez, who was also participating to the post of Director of the World Trade Organization.

In recent months has intensified the involvement and approach to this forum, the investment to achieve this goal, especially in terms of fighting corruption, green growth, promotion of technological innovation and science.

There has been in the same way a strong lobbying effort to ask certain Member countries for support to the country in order to achieve membership in the OECD, in this process have involved other representatives of the Government as the Ambassador of Costa Rica to the WTO, Ronald Saborío.

OECD decision who belong to his group by different criteria, including the merits of each candidate, their level of participation and contribution in committees, working groups, the subscription that make legal instruments and also the forums that have been present.

The Organization in the same way seeks to transcend other considerations apart from the influence of the candidate countries, as considerations of geopolitical type, balance and regional weight of this country in the OECD and the governance of the organization. The way in which countries make decisions at the WTO, among others is also taken into account.

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Obama’s visit to Costa Rica went as expected

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President Barack Obama is the fifth President to visit the country, the last visit it was the former President Bill Clinton

Barack Obama was in Costa Rica for 22 hours and arrived at Costa Rican soil to meet with Presidents members of SICA (Central American integration system) to discuss issues of security and especially of energy exchange.

Within the framework of the meeting of SICA, President Obama had the opportunity to lead a forum with Costa Rican entrepreneurs, Presidents of Central America and other participants.

The central theme of his visit revolved around the cooperation to promote the region clean energy generation. The Minister of environment and energy of Costa Rica, René Castro held a meeting with Carlos Pascual, Coordinator International Energy Affairs of United States.

"We want to help and see what practical things we have to do to advance in renewable energy," said Pascual in a press release from the Ministry of environment and energy.

Barack Obama also emphasized that Costa Rica has a chance of belonging to the Group of "rich" countries, to be a good candidate for admission to the OECD, although not be signature no agreement, verbally Obama pledged with support through their vote in Washington, so Costa Rica entering this group based in Paris.

"We will continue supporting Costa Rica so that it continues to expand its influence," said Obama in the press conference, standing two metres of Laura Chinchilla, who minutes later thanked her "express support".

The visit of Obama was guarded at all times by the secret service of the United States and the deployment of security officers provided by Costa Rica. While all passed in a timely and effective manner.

Barack Obama was very empathetic with the Costa Rican people who at all times tried to reach the President, his arrival and his departure was noted by many outside of the Juan Santa Maria International Airport.

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