SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says United Nations Secretary-Common António Guterres on Wednesday made a historic go to to its central headquarters right here for the primary time, assembly with your entire employees of the regional group and of the UN companies, funds and applications that work within the nation.
ECLAC mentioned Guterres was obtained by ECLAC’s Govt Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs and the Resident Coordinator of the UN System in Chile, María José Torres Macho, who welcomed him on behalf of all employees members.
Different members within the assembly included Pamela Villalobos, president of ECLAC’s Workers Council; Loreto Flores, president of the Workers Council of the Worldwide Labor Group (ILO); and Teresa Muro, president of the Workers Council of the United Nations Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF).
ECLAC mentioned Guterres’ go to coincides with its seventy fifth anniversary, created on February 25, 1948, “by decision 106 of the Financial and Social Council, which supplies it a particular, joyful that means for the establishment.”
“Throughout his time at ECLAC, António Guterres urged the 19 United Nations companies, funds, and applications in Chile to work collectively extra to assist the nation outline a profitable technique for improvement and prosperity, combating the inequalities that persist within the framework of respect for human rights, and for fixing all of the structural obstacles in society and the economic system,” the assertion mentioned.
ECLAC mentioned Salazar-Xirinachs pointed to “two main mandates that the UN Secretary-Common entrusted to him on this publish: to uphold and strengthen this historical past of contributions and mental management and to work intently with all of the United Nations organizations and entities to help all of the area’s international locations, guided by their imaginative and prescient as expressed in ‘Our Widespread Agenda’ and aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth.”
On this regard, ECLAC mentioned it has “prioritized 11 giant transformations in improvement fashions within the area that embody the technique of implementation by way of establishments, financing, and social dialogue to realize extra productive, inclusive, and sustainable improvement.”
ECLAC mentioned the Secretary-Common additionally participated in one of many commemoration and awareness-raising actions that ECLAC and the UN System in Chile perform every year within the framework of the UNiTE by 2030 to Finish Violence towards Girls marketing campaign.
Launched in 2008, ECLAC mentioned this initiative calls on governments, civil society, ladies’s organizations, younger folks, the personal sector, media, and your entire UN system “to hitch forces to forestall and remove this true world pandemic.”
The theme this 12 months is “UNITE! Make investments to forestall violence towards ladies and women,” ECLAC mentioned.
It mentioned the gathering with the Secretary-Common was a part of his official go to to Chilean territory, “which will even take him to the Antarctic continent to confirm the impacts of local weather change.”
He will probably be accompanied on that journey by Chilean President Gabriel Boric.
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