December 11, 2024.- On December 10 and 11, the national coordinators of the Pacific Alliance (PA) met in Santiago de Chile in a preparatory meeting for the meetings of the High Level Group and the Council of Ministers, which will also be held in the Chilean capital, together with the Ceremony of Transfer of the Pro Tempore Presidency of the bloc.
The meeting was led by the coordinators of the Pro Tempore Presidency Chile 2024, Angélica Romero, Director General (s) of Multilateral Economic Affairs, and Cristóbal Ramírez, Head of the Pacific Alliance Department, both from the Chilean Undersecretariat of International Economic Relations; and was attended by Ambassador Margarita Manjarrez, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Manuel Chacón, Director of Economic Integration of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, on behalf of Colombia; From Mexico, Daniel Cámara, Director General of American Regional Organizations and Mechanisms of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and, virtually, Alberto Jimenez, Director for Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific Alliance of the Ministry of Economy; and from Peru, María Eugenia Echeverría, Director General for Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Elba Rodríguez, Advisor to the Vice Ministry of Foreign Trade.
After the adoption of the agenda, the national coordinators reviewed the pending issues on the agenda of the authorities and the progress of the various working groups, in addition to receiving the management reports of AP Net and the Call 2024 of the Student and Academic Mobility Platform and the preparations for the Call 2025, among other matters.
At the end of the meeting, the national coordinators participated in the Second Meeting of the Working Group for the accession of Costa Rica, which was attended by Adriana Castro, Director General of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Trade; Rolando Madrigal, Head of Geographic Areas of the Directorate General of Foreign Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Adriana Murillo, Costa Rican Ambassador to Chile; and Lucía Navarro, advisor to the office of the Minister of Foreign Trade.
Communications PPT 2024 Pacific Alliance