The Government of Peru declared this Monday “of national interest” the fortieth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will be held this year in the Andean country on a date not yet specified.
The decision was made during the meeting of the Council of Ministers chaired at the Government Palace by the Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) reported in a statement.
The measure “intends to direct the regional debate towards the country’s priority issues, such as inclusive and sustainable development and the closing of structural gaps,” he said.
The Government of Peru proposed in November 2021 to organize the fortieth period of sessions of ECLAC during the meetings held in Lima by the then president Pedro Castillo and the chancellor Óscar Maúrtua with the then executive secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena.
In September of last year, the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, met in New York with the current executive secretary of ECLAC, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, to discuss that entity’s agenda in 2024 in the Andean country.
The meeting was held in the context of Boluarte’s participation in the UN General Assembly and the meeting discussed the strengthening of technical cooperation and the organization’s sessions in Peru.
At the end of the thirty-ninth session of ECLAC, which was held in October 2022 in Buenos Aires, the commission accepted the invitation of the Government of Peru to host the next session and recommended to the United Nations Economic and Social Council United Nations to approve that appointment for 2024.
Peru already hosted, in 2014, the XXXV period of sessions of ECLAC, one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations, which brings together 44 member countries and 12 associates that seek, according to their principles, to contribute to economic and social development. region of. The organization was established in 1948 and has two subregional headquarters: one in Chile and the other in Trinidad and Tobago.
Source: Larepublica
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