The XXVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Governmentinaugurated on Friday in Santo Domingo, It will be “people centered” affirmed the Ibero-American Secretary General, the Chilean Andrés Allamand. The beginning has had the presence of eleven heads of state who will have the mission of achieve “concrete results” in matters of sustainability, food safety, digital transformation and financial architecture.

This implies, Allamand stated in his speech, “orienting the activity associated with this meeting towards the obtaining concrete results that have a positive impact in the quality of life of Ibero-Americans”. To achieve this, three decisive instruments will be submitted to the countries for their consideration. fulfill the rights and strengthen the Ibero-American Community: the Ibero-American Environmental Charter, the Food Security Strategy and the Charter of Digital Principles and Rights, Allamand specified.

The Chilean diplomat referred to the context in which the Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo is taking place, in which it “mixes opportunities and challenges“, he stressed. The next Presidency of Spain of the Council of the European Unionis, according to Allamand, “an unbeatable opportunity to generate an agenda for the future” between Latin America and Europe “to work together on the solving problems like climate changewhich is, an existential threat to humanity”. For this, he added, the Ibero-American community “has a platform of cooperation and a consolidated institutionalitywhich are powerful instruments at the service of strengthening bi-regional relations”.

Regarding the challenges shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Ibero-American countries, the head of the Ibero-American Secretariat highlighted the “need to create conditions to trigger growth that manages to reduce the inequality that has plagued the region for a long time, to improve democratic governance and to increase confidence at all levels.” Fourteen have confirmed their participation in the Ibero-American Summit, whose motto is “Together for a fair and sustainable Ibero-America” ​​and whose plenary sessions will be held tomorrow at the headquarters of the Dominican Foreign Ministry. heads of state or government and two vice presidents.