Mon, Oct 24 2022

• Argentina Room, second basement
  Opening ceremony of the thirty-ninth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  09:00 am to 09:45 am

  Statements:

  • Santiago Cafiero, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina
  •  Arnoldo André Tinoco,  Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica, in his capacity as Chair of the thirty-eighth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  • Mercedes Marcó del Pont, Secretary for Strategic Affairs of Argentina
  • Claudia Mojica, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations system in Argentina
  • António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (pre-recorded video message)
  • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
  • Alberto Fernández, President of Argentina

  António Guterres - Discurso del Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas / Speech by the Secretary General of the United Nations (español)
  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Discurso inaugural del Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL / Inaugural speech by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC (español)
  Alberto Fernández - Discurso inaugural del Presidente de la Argentina / Inaugural speech by President of Argentina (español)
• Argentina Room, second basement
  Adoption of the agenda and election of officers
  09:45 am to 09:50 am
• Argentina Room, second basement
  Presentation of the ECLAC position document, Towards transformation of the development model in Latin America and the Caribbean: production, inclusion and sustainability
  09:50 am to 12:30 pm

  By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC  

  Comments on the document

  Moderator: Santiago Cafiero, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina
  • Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in Economics
  • Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (UCL)
  • José Antonio Ocampo, Minister of Finance and Public Debt of Colombia
  • Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (virtual)

  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Presentación del documento por parte del Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL
  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Presentation of the document by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC
• Plaza Seca, ground floor
  Inauguration of the exhibition “Argentina and the United Nations: a partnership for peace, human rights and development”
  12:30 pm to 12:45 pm

  In the framework of the seventy-seventh anniversary of the United Nations 

• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  High-level seminar. Panel 1 - Changes in globalization and challenges for the region
  02:30 pm to 03:45 pm

  Moderator: Gabriel Rubinstein, Secretary of Economic Policy of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Argentina
  • Rebeca Santos, President of the Central Bank of Honduras (virtual)
  • Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Professor in the School of Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  • Werner Isaac Vargas, Secretary-General of the Central American Integration System (SICA)
  • Luis Felipe López-Calva, Global Director of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank

  Luis Felipe López-Calva - “Correcting course” on poverty and inequality reduction in LAC
  Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid - Comentario y agradecimiento
• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  Statements by delegations
  03:45 pm to 04:15 pm
• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  High-level seminar. Panel 2 - Growth and distribution: the central importance of employment creation
  04:15 pm to 05:30 pm

  Moderator: Raquel Kismer de Olmos, Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Argentina
  • Marta Eugenia Esquivel Rodríguez, President of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (virtual)
  • Pablo Mieres, Minister for Labour and Social Security of Uruguay
  • Felipe Morgado, Superintendent for Vocational and Higher Education of the National Industrial Apprenticeship Service (SENAI) of Brazil
  • Anna Terrón Cusí, Director of the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP)

  Felipe Morgado - Crecimiento y distribución: la centralidad de la creación de empleos (español)
• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  Statements by delegations
  05:30 pm to 06:00 pm
• Fourth floor foyer
  Reception hosted by ECLAC for delegations in attendance at the thirty-ninth session
  06:30 pm to 07:30 pm