The meeting was attended by representatives of the following countries, which had been appointed to serve as Presiding Officers: Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay.

Also attending the meeting were representatives of  ECLAC member States: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica and Mexico.

3 – 3.10 p.m. Adoption of the agenda

3.10 – 4.10 p.m. Follow-up on the South-South cooperation activities carried out since the thirtyfifth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

• Report on the seminar-workshop entitled “Analysis of the status of proposals to measure South-South cooperation” (Santiago, 16-17 December 2015) by the Office of the Secretary of the Commission
• Proposal for measuring South-South cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean through a system of satellite accounts, presented by the Statistics Division of ECLAC
• Proposal for measuring South-South cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean through the monitoring and evaluation of South-South cooperation programmes and projects, presented by the Social Development Division of ECLAC
• Progress made by the Task Force on the Quantification of South-South Cooperation of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC and outcomes of the Discussion Workshop on the Development of a
• Methodology to Measure South-South Cooperation (Bogota, 28-30 April 2015), presented by the Statistics Division of ECLAC
• Progress report on the process of calculating structural gaps by the Financing for Development Unit of the Economic Development Division of ECLAC
• Report of the Office of the Secretary of the Commission

4.10 – 5.30 p.m. South-South cooperation and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

• Presentation by Luis Yáñez, Officer in Charge of the Office of the Secretary of the Commission
• Statements by delegations

5.30 – 6 p.m. Adoption of agreements