Salvadoran President-Elect Salvador Sanchez Ceren meets with Secretary of State John Kerry

Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Salvadoran President-Elect Salvador Sanchez Ceren, at the Department of State.

Around 5 pm today, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Salvadoran President-Elect Salvador Sanchez Ceren at the Department of State.

In the meeting, Mr Kerry said to Mr. Sanchez Ceren that the US considers El Salvador an important ally in the region not just as partner in security matters, but also in economic terms. Due to its large Salvadoran population in the United States, El Salvador is the third country with whom the US exchanges more services, products and information after Mexico and Canada.

Sanchez Ceren,  on his part, invited Mr. Kerry to visit El Salvador for his inauguration ceremony on June 1, 2014 and to speed up the $261 Million Second Compact from the Challenge Corporation Account, which Mr. Kerry presides.

In Press Conference, Sanchez Ceren said that his visit to U.S. was fruitful and saluted the Salvadoran community, the largest latino group in the Washington metropolitan area.  


 Mr. Sanchez Ceren is expected to return to El Salvador at 5:00 am on Tuesday. 

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