(19 May 2011) According to the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, who was visiting Montevideo, Uruguay: "We believe that there is a window of opportunity for boosting the strategic partnership between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union".
The senior United Nations official gave a presentation entitled "Opportunities for deepening relations between Latin America and Europe" at the 5th Ordinary Plenary Session of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) being held there.
"We must strengthen cooperation to deepen integration in the region itself, im…
(14 November 2011) The Sixth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC (SCA-ECLAC) will talk place in Bávaro, Dominican Republic, from 16 to 18 November 2011 during which authorities and experts will analyse various issues relating to the development of statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean.
During the meeting, ministers, directors of national statistical offices, officials from other public institutions and central banks, and specialists from international organizations will focus discussions on the development of environmental statistics, the 2010 round of popul…
(1 June 2011) As part of his official visit to Chile, the Vice-President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will deliver a lecture on Chinese-Latin American relations at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago.
The lecture will be held on Friday 10 June at 10.30 a.m. and will be attended by representatives from the government, academia, international agencies and members of the diplomatic corps accredited in Chile.
Xi Jinping will be received by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, who will welcome him on behalf of ECLAC and…