Panama’s José Raúl Mulino arrives in Guayaquil for talks with Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino arrived at Guayaquil’s Simón Bolívar Air Base for an official working visit with Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa.

Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Roberto Kury received Mulino alongside Panama’s ambassador to Ecuador, Alfredo Montaner, and Ecuador’s ambassador to Panama, Pascual del Cioppo. Mulino traveled with Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha, Trade Minister Julio Moltó, Panama Canal Authority board member Jorge Vallarino and First Lady Maricel Cohen de Mulino.

The visit’s agenda included meetings between the two presidents and their foreign ministers on trade, investment, migration and security. Kury also held a private meeting with Martínez-Acha, with the governor of Guayas taking part in discussions on the bilateral agenda and continued cooperation.

Panama’s trade minister and Ecuador’s Minister of Economic Development and Productivity, Sahira Moya, were scheduled to sign the Ecuador-Panama Partial-Scope Agreement. The two countries began developing the limited bilateral trade accord in 2023.

The foreign ministers were also due to sign an agreement on interinstitutional migration-information exchange, a cooperation mechanism established in 2011. The visit was scheduled to end with Mulino and his delegation returning to Panama that afternoon. The article also recalled an earlier meeting in Quito, where the two countries’ foreign ministers agreed on the need to fight transnational organized crime together.