(13 February 2013) As part of an official visit to Cuba from Monday 11 February to Friday 15, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, has held various meetings with senior government authorities to assess, inter alia, the support that the Commission will provide in 2013 to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), of which Cuba holds the pro tempore presidency.
The delegation accompanying the most senior representative of ECLAC consists in Raúl García-Buchaca, Director of the Programme Planning and Operati…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold its most important biennial meeting in Mexico City from May 23 to May 27, 2016, where officials will present its 45 member and 13 associated states a report on its activities and will offer governments a reflection upon development strategies in the context of the commitments contained in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, indicated that in the thirty-sixth session participants will debate the region’s economic, social and environmenta…
Ambassadors and official representatives of member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) met this Tuesday, October 17 at the United Nations headquarters in New York to conduct the Thirty-seventh session of the Committee of the Whole of the organization, where participants reviewed a report on the Commission’s activities in 2022, presented a proposal on the 2025 programme of work for its adoption, and shared an updated overview of the socioeconomic situation in the region.
The Committee of the Whole of ECLAC is the official administrative body that all…