• The Central American Security Commission approved this week a plan against organized crime and for the prevention of violence against women.

Representatives of the Central American Integration System (SICA, its initials in Spanish) member countries met to discuss security and foreign affairs this week in San José.

The SICA’s Central American Security Commission (CSC) approved a technical methodological guide and drew up a roadmap for the preparation of a regional intersectoral plan against organized crime (which is called PRICCO in Spanish).

The document was as a result of a meeting of deputy ministers of foreign affairs and security, police and security authorities of the eight member countries of the SICA, of which Costa Rica occupies the pro-tempore presidency.

Likewise, the a roadmap was approved as part of a permanent regional program for the prevention of violence against women.

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica Alejandro Solano, welcomed regional leaders and said “the working session would make significant progress in terms of regional security and provide due follow-up to existing agreements.”

PRICCO responds to a mandate of the council of ministers in the area of ​​security held in El Salvador in September 2015. Likewise, the plan is one of Costa Rica’s priorities for its leadership of the regional body.

The security commission meeting included attendance by Costa Ricans Alejandra Mora, minister of the National Institute of Women; Tim Morris, director of Interpol; as well as Kenneth Bell, Ambassador to Nicaragua for the European Union; and delegates from the Council of Ministers of Women of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMMCA).