Politburo member and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla took to his Twitter account to thank Alicia Bárcena for her work during her tenure as Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
“Our congratulations and appreciation to Alicia Bárcena for her tireless commitment and exceptional contribution to the development and well-being of the peoples of our region for almost 14 years at the helm of ECLAC. We appreciate your constant cooperation with Cuba,” wrote the Cuban Foreign Minister.
Our congratulations and appreciation @alicia barcena for his tireless efforts and his exceptional contribution to the development and well-being of the peoples of our region, for almost 14 years at the helm of @cepal_onu.
We appreciate your continued cooperation with #Cuba. pic.twitter.com/Ai9Dc9jU16
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) March 31, 2022
By decision of the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, the Mexican diplomat will succeed him from the 1st. April by Argentine economist Mario Cimoli, who has been deputy executive secretary of ECLAC since 2018, this organization reported on its website.
«Today I am ending this fertile cycle as head of ECLAC. This was the brightest period of my professional career. For nearly 14 years, I have helped bring weight, influence and opportunity to the corpus of shifting, progressive and egalitarian beliefs that characterize the present of ECLAC thought,” Bárcena recalled from the central headquarters in during the ceremony in her honor Santiago de Chile.
According to Guterres, the representative led progressive and visionary management; She was one of the first in this international organization to consider gender equality in its many guises as a cornerstone of sustainable development and to highlight the specific challenges of middle-income countries.
Among the many initiatives that Bárcena has developed over her years of work, she highlights “The Caribbean First”, a strategy aimed at reassessing and strengthening the Caribbean’s belonging as a fundamental part of our region and the possibilities for integration and expand collaboration; and funding for development from the regional dimension.