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How to Follow the First Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development in Mexico

All panels at the annual meeting will be broadcast live on April 26-28. The invitation on social networks is to participate in the debates using the hashtags #ForoALC2030 and #LACForum2030.
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18 April 2017
foto del edificio de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) de México.
La Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) de México acogerá la reunión del 26 al 28 de abril de 2017.

The first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, created in 2016, will be held on April 26-28 in Mexico City, Mexico, under the sponsorship of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The objective is to assess regional implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The event will be attended by representatives of governments, the United Nations, international financial institutions and development banks, regional and subregional integration organizations, civil society, the parliamentary arena, academia and the private sector in the region.

Website

The website created for the occasion, http://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2017/en, provides general information on the event, accreditation forms, the programme, reference documents and reports and press releases and news, as well as links to ECLAC’s social media accounts. It also includes details on the multiple participating stakeholders, among other informational resources.

Live Broadcast

All meeting panels will be broadcast live. The direct link will be up shortly on the Forum website. Any media outlets or organizations are free to replicate the broadcast on their own web portals.

Mobile App

Another way to access event information is by downloading the mobile app, available at the Apple Store and Google Play: http://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2017/en/mobile-app

Twitter

We will be tweeting in English and Spanish from both of our institutional accounts, @cepal_onu and @eclac_un, with the hashtags #ForoALC2030 and #LACForum2030. We’ll also be using #CEPAL and #ECLAC, #Agenda2030 and #2030Agenda, #ODS and #SDGs and #desarrollosostenible and #sustainabledevelopment.

Facebook and Google+

On our Facebook pages (https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu/ and https://www.facebook.com/eclac), we will be sharing diverse content about the meeting, which will be held at the headquarters of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.

Log in to Google+ at https://plus.google.com/u/0/+cepal/posts and https://plus.google.com/108419203651970355698/posts.

YouTube

We are already supplying our YouTube channels with a variety of videos related to the meeting, which we’ll be updating in Mexico. Subscribe to our channels at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CEPALONU and https://www.youtube.com/user/ECLACUN.

Flickr

All event photos will be published on our institutional Flickr accounts at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cepal/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/eclac. Corresponding photo credits will be published for each image.

For queries, please contact:

Guido Camú, Officer-in-Charge of ECLAC’s Public Information Unit in Santiago, Chile. Email: prensa@cepal.org; Telephone: (56 2) 2210 2040; Mobile: +52 1 55 8099 2239.

María Luisa Díaz de León, Public Information Officer at ECLAC’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico. Email: marialuisa.diaz@cepal.org; Telephone: (52 55) 41705665; Mobile: +52 1 55 5416 9297.

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