Guatemala City, Apr 23 (EFE).- Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales will meet Saturday in the United States with OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro and the secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or IACHR, Emilio Alvarez Icaza, to ask that they investigate the death of a 13-year-old boy on the Guatemala-Belize border.

Guatemala’s Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales said the purpose of these meetings is to request a “quick” and “impartial investigation” in order to find and deal with those responsible for the youngster’s death last Wednesday in an area claimed by both Guatemala and Belize.

Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales agreed Friday at the United Nations to do whatever it takes to ease the growing tension between the two countries created by the teenager’s death.

The Belize government issued a statement Friday explaining that the two heads of state met at U.N. headquarters, where they both took part Friday in the signing by at least 175 countries of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, after the measure had been passed last December.

During that meeting, and always as reported by the Belize government, Barrow recommended that Morales seek help from the U.S. government to perform the necessary forensic study into the death of the Guatemalan boy who lost his life Wednesday on the border between the two countries, and in that way aid the investigation into the incident being carried out by the Organization of American States, or OAS.

From United Nations headquarters in New York, Barrow called a special meeting of the National Security Council in Belize City to deal with the situation created in Chiquibul Forest Reserve, where the youth was killed in “Belize territory,” the Belize government said in its statement.

The Guatemalan government reported that on Wednesday, Belize security forces launched an attack against three Guatemalans, which ended with the death of the minor, while his 11-year-old brother and their father were wounded.

Belize, however, said that its security forces replied to a shooting “in self-defense” and, to prove what happened, has now sought the help of the OAS. EFE