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Mexico Will Be the Site of ECLAC’s Most Important Gathering
--Mexican Foreign Minister from May 23 to May 27, signed the accord in early in this session participants Latin American develop-
Claudia Ruiz Massieu and 2016, where officials will February through which will debate the region’s
ECLAC’s Executive Secre- present to its 45 member Mexico became the site economic, social and en- ment, while also drafting a
tary, Alicia Bárcena, signed countries a report on re- for the Thirty-sixth session vironmental development
an accord regarding the cent activities and will offer of this United Nations orga- based on a position docu-
organization’s thirty-sixth governments a reflection nization. “For our country ment written by ECLAC, in
session, which will be held upon development strate- it is very important to host light of the agenda of the
on May 23-27. gies in the context of the ECLAC’s session and re- Sustainable Development
commitments contained in ceive representatives from Goals (SDGs) approved by
ORANJESTAD - The Eco- the 2030 Agenda and the throughout the region to the UN General Assembly in
nomic Commission for Latin Sustainable Development discuss issues of develop- September 2015. This doc-
America and the Carib- Goals. Mexico’s Foreign ment and equality, espe- ument continues along the
bean (ECLAC) will hold its Minister, Claudia Ruiz Mass- cially of gender,” Ruiz Mas- same path as the “trilogy
most important biannual ieu, and ECLAC’s Executive sieu affirmed. of equality” presented by
meeting in Mexico City Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, Bárcena indicated that the Commission in its three
previous meetings (2010,
2012 and 2014). joint proposal for a possible
“We keep equality at the
center of our proposals oceanographic expedi-
and with a gender ap-
proach in which the role tion between the Antarctic
of Latin American and Ca-
ribbean women is made and the whale sanctuary
more visible in the agen-
da of the SDGs,” said the in the Gulf of California in
United Nations official. “As
a Mexican woman, it is an the framework of Pacific
honor that this meeting be
held in my country.” Alliance cooperation.
The Executive Secretary
also met with President En- Both sides also proposed
rique Peña Nieto, whom
she thanked for the invita- reinforcing academic ex-
tion that Mexico’s govern-
ment made to ECLAC to changes and scholarships
host the session. She also
expressed her apprecia- for Latin American stu-
tion to him, since he will
be the person to kick off dents. Bárcena also met
the work of this regional UN
commission’s highest gov- with Julio Santaella, Presi-
erning body. During her vis-
it Bárcena met as well with dent of the INEGI, and with
the most senior authorities
of the National Autono- Vice Presidents Félix Vélez
mous University of Mexico
(UNAM) and the National and Rolando Ocampo.
Institute of Statistics and
Geography (INEGI), ac- The Institute currently pre-
companied on both oc-
casions by Antonio Prado, sides the Statistical Con-
ECLAC’s Deputy Executive
Secretary, and the Director ference of the Americas
of the Subregional Head-
quarters in Mexico, Hugo of ECLAC (SCA-ECLAC)
Beteta. At the UNAM, Rec-
tor Enrique Graue and and will participate ac-
Secretary-General Leon-
ardo Lomelí agreed to tively in the upcoming ses-
jointly publish with ECLAC
a series of studies about sion. The officials agreed
that the INEGI will present
its experiences regard-
ing South-South coopera-
tion, the Caribbean and
Central America, gender
statistics in Latin America
and the Caribbean, and
the relationship between
statistics and geography
in its studies. The complete
program of ECLAC’s thirty-
sixth session, along with
general information on the
meeting, will be available
soon on the gathering’s
special Web site, which
can be accessed through
www.cepal.org. Journalists
who want to get accred-
ited to cover the meeting
can also do so through this
site.q
