United Nations
First meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Santiago, 19 de junio de 2024
The first meeting of the Presiding Officers will be held in person on 19 June 2024. The currently serving Presiding Officers were elected at the first session of the Regional Conference, held in May 2023, and comprise Argentina as Chair and Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain and Uruguay as Vice-Chairs. At that session, resolution 1(I) was adopted, in which the Presiding Officers and the member countries of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean were requested to promote the strengthening of synergies and partnerships with other stakeholders such as development banks, the private sector and regional and subregional integration mechanisms, as well as multi-stakeholder partnerships with civil society, local governments and academia in matters related to international development cooperation. They were also urged to identify common criteria to guide evaluation and assessment of these cooperation modalities and their impacts, and that take into account the conceptual framework for the measurement of South-South cooperation.
Programme of work
Collection of credentials
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Opening session
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- Luis F. Yáñez, Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- Mateo Estremé, Director General of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina, the country serving as Chair of the Presiding Officers of the Conference
Adoption of the agenda
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Assessment and evaluation of South-South and triangular cooperation
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Moderator: Enrique Oviedo, Political Affairs Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the Commission
- Luiza Lopes da Silva, Deputy Director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency Brazil
- Enrique O’Farrill Julien, Executive Director of the Chilean Agency for International Cooperation for Development
- Diana Alexandra Medina, Tercera Secretaria encargada del relacionamiento con la CEPAL en la Coordinación de Cooperación Sur-Sur y Triangular de la Dirección de Cooperación Internacional de Colombia en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, y Mónica Barrios, Coordinadora de América Latina y el Caribe, APC – Colombia
- Fabiola Soto Narváez, Director of Policy on Multilateral Cooperation, Forums and Mechanisms at the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation
- Lara Patricia Weisstaub, Coordinator of International Mobility and Cooperation at the National University of San Martín, in Argentina
- Andrés Fernández, CConsultant at ECLAC
- Statements by delegations
Lunch break
Multi-stakeholder strategies: opportunities for international development cooperation
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Moderator: Luis F. Yáñez, Secretary of the Commission
- Alexei Felizola Chaveco, Adviser to the Embassy of Cuba in Chile
- Alfonso Abdo, Adviser on matters of cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador
- José Luis Pimentel, General Coordinator of cooperation between Spain and the Southern Cone at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation
- Verónica Suárez, Coordinator of Institutional Relations at the Uruguayan International Cooperation Agency
- Statements by delegations
Presentation on the project led by the Regional Fund for Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, entitled "Strengthening feminist foreign policy and feminist international cooperation"
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with the participation of ECLAC, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Germany.
By Ana Güezmes, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC
Consideration and adoption of agreements
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Closing session
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- Mateo Estremé, Director General of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina, the country serving as Chair of the Presiding Officers of the Conference
- Luis F. Yáñez, Secretary of the Commission
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Organizing institution
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
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