Wed, Oct 07 2026

• Collection of credentials (AC Hotel)
  08:00 am to 02:00 pm
• Free time to explore Santiago de los Caballeros and its local cultural offerings
  08:00 am to 01:00 pm

  Time allocated to tours and activities related to industry, culture, tobacco heritage, tourism and other notable attractions in and around Santiago de los Caballeros.

• Transfer to Centro de Convenciones y Cultura Dominicana UTESA for the lunch for ministers of foreign affairs and heads of delegation
  11:00 am to 11:30 am
• Magna II Room, third floor
  Lunch hosted by Raquel Peña, Vice-President of the Dominican Republic (by invitation) 
  11:30 am to 01:45 pm

  For ministers of foreign affairs  and heads of delegation attending the forty-first session  of ECLAC 

• Remarks by Raquel Peña, Vice-President of the Dominican Republic
  12:00 pm to 12:20 pm

  Biography Raquel Peña

• Panel discussion on the northern region and the impact of public-private dialogue on the Dominican Republic’s transformation
  12:20 pm to 01:30 pm

  Moderator: Mario Pujols, Executive Vice-President of the Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic (AIRD)
  • Miguel Lama, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Santiago Free Zone Corporation
  • Lina García, CEO of Envases Antillanos and Chair of the Association for Development (APEDI)
  • Manuel Estrella, Founder and Chair of Grupo Estrella
  • Julio Virgilio Brache, First Vice-Chair of the National Council of Private Enterprise (CONEP)

• Summa I and II conference room, third floor
  Opening ceremony of the forty-first session of ECLAC
  02:30 pm to 03:15 pm

  • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
  • Gustavo Lembcke Hoyle, Ambassador of Peru in the Dominican Republic
  • Luis Abinader Corona, President of the Dominican Republic

  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Discurso de inauguración
• Summa I and II conference room, third floor
  Adoption of the agenda and election of officers
  03:15 pm to 03:20 pm
• Summa I and II conference room, third floor
  Presentation of the ECLAC position document: Managing Transformations in an Era of Ruptures
  03:20 pm to 04:40 pm

  By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC

  Comments on the document:
  • Víctor Orlando Bisonó, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic
  • Paul Chet Greene, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Barbuda Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda (virtual)
  • Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (virtual)

• Summa I and II conference room, third floor
  Dialogue of ministers of foreign affairs and high-level authorities
  04:40 pm to 06:00 pm

  On the document Managing Transformations in an Era of Ruptures

  Chair of the dialogue: Víctor Orlando Bisonó, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic

• Grand Ballroom Saman, second floor
  Dinner hosted by Víctor Orlando Bisonó, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, for ministers of foreign affairs and heads of delegation (by invitation)
  07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

  With Luis Abinader Corona, President of the Dominican Republic

  (Hotel Santiago Curio Collection by Hilton)