The following excerpt is from a May 19, 2010 article published by the Guatemalan Times. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
Guatemala City. Mr. Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health, visited Guatemala between 12-18 May 2010. On 18 May, he conveyed to the Government his preliminary reflections on his visit. Later on 18 May, he held a press conference in Guatemala City. He opened the press conference with some preliminary remarks about his visit. These remarks are set out below.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I would like to warmly thank the Government for inviting me to Guatemala and for facilitating a rich and interesting programme of meetings in Guatemala City, Malacatancito, San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán and Huehuetenango. I also would like to acknowledge the traditional inhabitants of this land, the indigenous peoples of Guatemala: the Mayan, Xinca and Garifuna, and I pay my respects to them. During my visit I met with the Vice-President, Ministers of Finance and Health, members of the Constitutional Court, the Ombudsman, the First Vice-President and elected representatives of the Congress, the Presidential Commission on Human Rights, public officials from the national and local levels, numerous health professionals, civil society organisations – and many other experts, too numerous to mention…
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