Li Keqiang, the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, will give a keynote lecture on Monday, May 25, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he will be received by the Executive Secretary of the regional United Nations organization, Alicia Bárcena.
The event will be held at 3:45 p.m., local time in Chile, in the Raúl Prebisch conference room. It will also be broadcast live on the Internet via ECLAC’s website: ://www.cepal.org/es/cepal-en-vivo
The senior official will visit Chile during a tour…
The flag of the Kingdom of Norway was raised for the first time today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile during a ceremony that marked its incorporation as a Member State of this United Nations regional organization.
The ceremony was presided over by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, and was attended by Tone Skogen, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Norway. Other participants included representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Chile (among them officials from the Embassy of Peru, the country t…
Remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the ceremony marking the full membership of the Kingdom of Norway in the Commission
ECLAC headquarters, Santiago
4 October 2015
Dear Tone Skogen, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Norway,
Dearest friend, Hege Araldsen, Ambassador of Norway to Chile,
Members of the official delegation of Norway,
Members of the diplomatic corps,
Colleagues of the United Nations system,
Colleagues of ECLAC,
Friends,
Receive our warmest welcome on this very special occasion, o…