SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The manager secretary of the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Tuesday mentioned the creation of the Regional Convention on South-South Cooperation in 2021 marked a decisive step in the direction of extra built-in and sensible cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
“This area has strengthened ties between international locations from the International South and has opened new doorways to triangular cooperation with extra-regional actors, donors, and worldwide organizations,” Salazar-Xirinachs, the two-day Convention analyzing the challenges of worldwide cooperation in shaping the brand new regional and international context.
The 2-day second session of the Regional Convention on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has introduced collectively representatives of the area’s international locations, the United Nations system, in addition to regional and worldwide organizations.
The opening ceremony emphasised that worldwide cooperation is a device for solidarity. Nonetheless, it is usually a structural necessity for constructing a extra productive, inclusive, sustainable, simply, and resilient future in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In his handle, Salazar-Xirinachs acknowledged that the Convention is going down in a world context marked by a number of crises, vital geopolitical shifts, and competitors amongst main economies and powers.
“It is a context that I might even describe as a disaster in worldwide cooperation, the place sure international locations and views are questioning multilateralism, the United Nations system, and worldwide cooperation.
“That’s the reason we should rethink the function of South-South and triangular cooperation as a vital mechanism for strengthening capacities, mobilizing assets, and selling options tailor-made to regional and nationwide realities,” he mentioned.
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Salazar-Xirinachs acknowledged that worldwide cooperation is important for guaranteeing safety, stability, and collective well-being in a profoundly interconnected world. He added that in instances of disaster, it isn’t simply an moral choice however somewhat a strategic necessity for surviving and prospering collectively.
He mentioned that the present situation requires braveness, creativity, pragmatism, conviction, and dedication, together with a long-term imaginative and prescient.
“International financial and geopolitical situations couldn’t be extra advanced, and whereas there are alternatives, that is an unfriendly time for progress and improvement efforts. I hope that this Convention is usually a recreation changer: a platform for renewing commitments, constructing bridges, activating concrete options, and accelerating the success of the Sustainable Growth Objectives.
“The long run is just not set in stone: it’s in our fingers, and it begins with what we determine to do collectively, at present, right here and now,” he instructed the delegates.
The Director of the United Nations Workplace for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), Dima Al-Khatib, who addressed the Convention just about, famous that Latin America and the Caribbean have performed a novel and particular function within the historical past and evolution of improvement cooperation.
“It was on this area that UN member states first convened to form a improvement cooperation that may remodel conventional paradigms, heavier in improvement help and assist, somewhat than cooperation,” she acknowledged.
Director Normal of Worldwide Cooperation on the Argentine International Ministry, Mateo Estremé, acknowledged that measuring cooperation amongst creating international locations is essential to strengthening their international management, enhancing their effectiveness, and advancing collectively in the direction of sustainable improvement.
He additionally underlined the relevance of incorporating multi-stakeholder cooperation modalities: “In a context of lowered official assets for worldwide cooperation, we should design methods that may enable us to include the participation of the non-public sector, academia, and different actors, and to combine these sectors within the design and implementation of cooperation actions.”
On the primary day of this assembly, delegates elected Chile to function Chair of the Regional Convention on South-South Cooperation for the subsequent two years.
The Regional Convention on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean was established by decision 752 and accepted by member international locations on the thirty sixth session of ECLAC’s Committee of the Complete in December 2021.
A few of the goals of this subsidiary physique of ECLAC are to look at the experiences of South-South and triangular cooperation in Latin American and Caribbean international locations and to make progress in evaluating them together with the related subsidiary our bodies that conduct research on this area.
