(16 April 2010) The Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Pascal Lamy, visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) today and held a work meeting with its directors.
Lamy was received by ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena, with whom he exchanged experiences and views on the current situation of the world economy and the challenges in trade and integration faced by the Latin American and Caribbean region.
Also participating in the meeting were Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado, Division Directors and Chiefs of units, among them the directors of the following divisions: International Trade and Integration, Economic Development, Sustainable Development and Human Settlements, Gender Affairs, Production, Productivity and Management, Natural Resources and Infrastructure, Programmes and Operations, as well as the Chief of the Development Studies Unit.
During the meeting, Alicia Bárcena gave Pascal Lamy a number of the Commission's most recent publications, such as Climate Change: A Regional Perspective, prepared in conjunction with the Inter American Development Bank, and The Popular Republic of China and Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a Strategic Relationship, released this week.
For more information, contact ECLAC's Information Services. Email: dpisantiago@cepal.org; telephone: (56-2) 210-2040/2149.
