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7 March 2022 | Press Release

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Champion the Forum on Sustainable Development as an Indispensable Space for Regional Integration and Cooperation
The Fifth Meeting of this intergovernmental gathering was inaugurated by the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, and ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena.
18 March 2021 | Press Release

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Commit to Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Building Forward Better
At the conclusion of the fourth meeting of the Forum of the Countries on Sustainable Development, government representatives reaffirmed the dire urgency of building fair, sustainable societies that would tackle inequality and guarantee citizenship and rights, and of acting together as a region to ensure access to vaccines for the entire population.
4 August 2020 | Press Release

Countries of the Region Urge for a Paradigm Shift in International Financing and for Strengthening Multilateralism
Representatives of ECLAC’s member countries met today at the thirty-fifth session of the Commission’s Committee of the Whole, in which Costa Rica assumed the regional organization’s Presidency Pro Tempore for the next two years.
22 May 2020 | Press Release

ECLAC Stresses the Value of the Regional Dimension as a Bridge to Connect the Global Processes and New National Realities Prompted by COVID-19 with regard to the Challenge of Fulfilling the 2030 Agenda

The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated in a high-level virtual meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to review progress on reform of the United Nations Development System and its response to the pandemic.
8 May 2018 | Press Release

ECLAC’s Thirty-seventh Session Begins with a Call to Intensify the Fight Against Inequality

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena and the Chief of Staff of the Office of the President of Mexico, Francisco Guzmán, inaugurated the regional organization’s most important biennial meeting, being held through Friday, May 11 in Havana.
7 May 2018 | Press Release

ECLAC and Cuba Join in a Dialogue about its Path to Sustainable Development
Alicia Bárcena, the organization’s Executive Secretary, participated in a session dedicated to the host country prior to the inauguration of the Commission’s thirty-seventh session.
12 August 2015 | Press Release

Authorities Examine the Role of Planning in the 2030 Development Agenda
Participants at the twenty-fifth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the ECLAC Regional Council for Planning discussed the challenges related to the implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals.
30 April 2015 | Press Release

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Made Official Visit to Cuba
Alicia Bárcena met with senior officials from the country and participated in a seminar on the economic development of Latin America and the Caribbean island.
29 January 2015 | Press Release

ECLAC Will Support the Institutional Strengthening of the Salvadoran State
El Salvador’s President, Sánchez Cerén, and the regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, agree to collaborate on the implementation of economic and social public policies that benefit the citizens of that country.
28 March 2012 | Press Release

Brazil to Host Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning in 2012
The Government of Brazil will host the next appointment of the Council, a subsidiary body of ECLAC, to be held in November.