This Friday officially begins in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the XXVIII. Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government. Pictured is the V Extraordinary Meeting of National Coordinators and Cooperation Managers before the Summit. Photo: @CumbreIberoA
This Friday officially begins in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the XXVIII. Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, which will be attended by the 22 countries of Ibero-America, a region that reaches more than 684 million people.
Since last Wednesday, the delegations of the different countries have started to debate and negotiate on the Caribbean island the issues that will be discussed during the summit that will take place on March 24-25 at the highest level and focus on strengthening ties between America and America will focus on Europe and addressing regional challenges in aspects such as innovation, education and social inclusion.
One of the main points discussed at the V Extraordinary Meeting of National Coordinators and Cooperation Managers mid-week was the Santo Domingo Declaration, a document that integrates the main issues of interest to Iberoamerica, including regional security, food security, digital transformation and other aspects of the agreement.
The 22 representatives of Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru took part in these working sessions debated. , Portugal, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Also, the Ibero-American Secretary General Andrés Allamand, his deputy Marcos Pinta Gama and a delegation from the host country led by the Vice Minister for Multilateral Foreign Policy and National Coordinator of the Dominican Republic, Rubén Silié; along with Deputy Minister for International Cooperation and Head of Cooperation Olaya Dotel.
Schedule of Activities
Various activities related to the summit have been carried out since last Wednesday. One of them was the presentation of the III. Report of the La Rábida Observatory on “Food Systems and Climate Change in Latin America”.
Among other things, the South-South and Triangle Report in Iberomaérica 2022 was presented on Thursday; found the XVI. Iberoamerican business meetings held; and the presentation of the document “Economic Outlook for Latin America 2022: Towards a Green and Fair Transition”.
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), a United Nations (UN) agency that promotes the economic and social development of the region.
Scheduled for this Friday is the presentation of the achievements of the Iberoamerican Disability Rights Program (PID) and the meeting of the foreign ministers of the bloc, which will conclude the high-level issues that will conclude the heads of state and government, on Saturday, the 25th when the Presidential Summit takes place.
The meeting, which also includes high-level meetings between the various delegations, has a meeting of heads of state and government scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Santo Domingo time, which will take place in a moment. At the end, the summit declaration is made.
The most important topics
According to the official program of the XXVIII. At the 20th Ibero-American Summit, to be held under the motto “Together for a Just and Sustainable Ibero-America”, the 22 nations meeting in Santo Domingo will adopt “four instruments” to define their position and propose solutions to “some of the greatest challenges facing the region”.
The first of these documents is the Iberoamerican Environmental Charter, which aims to “consolidate shared vision in the face of the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, and establish guidelines to guide regulation and public policy on these matters.”
The second text is the Ibero-American Charter on Digital Principles and Rights, which aims to put people “at the center of inclusive digital transformation, filling existing gaps and avoiding new ones. In addition, it “promotes principles that states must have the view” on the “implementation of national legislation and the implementation of public policies”.
The third theme is “the strategy to achieve food security”. It proposes to “increase intra-regional trade and the development of more resilient supply chains, consolidate family farming, expand access to finance to transform agri-food systems, and strengthen rural digital infrastructure.”
The fourth and final item is the Special Communiqué on the International Financial Architecture, which “systematizes a proposal to work towards a more equitable, inclusive, and flexible international financial system that will enable Iberoamerican countries to better manage postmortem recovery processes. Pandemic, energy transition, climate adaptation and the fight against inequality”.
(With information from RT)
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