All the main panels at the meeting will be broadcast live on June 17-18, 2025. The invitation, on social media, is to participate in the debates using hashtags #CooperaciónSurSur and #SouthSouthCooperation.

The Second Session of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place on June 17-18 at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The purpose of the meeting is to analyze the challenges of international cooperation in shaping the new regional and global context.

The intergovernmental meeting will be inaugurated on Tuesday, June 17 at 10:00 a.m. Chile time (GMT -4) by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Dima Al-Khatib, Director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC); and Mateo Estremé, Director-General of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina, in his capacity as Chair of the First Meeting of the Conference. 

In the run-up to the conference, on Monday, June 16, the Forum on gender mainstreaming in international cooperation for development in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held. This event will bring together specialists to exchange experiences and proposals aimed at increasing cooperation and financing for achieving gender equality, as well as mainstreaming the gender perspective in cooperation policies and programmes. 

Web site

The web site created for the occasion https://conferenciacss.cepal.org/2/en, provides general event information, accreditation forms, the program schedule, reference documents, press releases and news, as well as links to ECLAC’s social media. The site also lists the multiple actors participating, in addition to other information sources. 

Live broadcast

All the gathering’s panels will be transmitted live via the following platforms:

• Meeting website: https://conferenciacss.cepal.org/2/en  
• ECLAC’s website: www.cepal.org
• Live streaming special website: https://live.cepal.org/cooperacionsursur/ 
• Official account on X: https://x.com/cepal_onu 
• Official account on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu  

Any media outlet or organization is free to replicate the transmission on their own Internet portals.

X (formerly Twitter)

We will be tweeting in English and Spanish from both of our institutional accounts, @cepal_onu and @eclac_un, with hashtags #CooperaciónSurSur and #SouthSouthCooperation. 

Facebook 

We’ll be sharing diverse contents related to the meeting on our Facebook pages at https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu/ and https://www.facebook.com/eclac.

YouTube

The entire conference will remain available on our YouTube channels for later consultation. Subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/user/CEPALONU and https://www.youtube.com/user/ECLACUN. 

Flickr

All photographs of the event will be published on our institution’s Flickr accounts: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cepal/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/eclac. Corresponding credits will be published for each image.