Programme
2–2.10 p.m.    Welcome address
• Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• Christian Guillermet-Fernández, Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of ECLAC

2.10–2.15 p.m.    Adoption of the agenda

2.15– 3 p.m.    Challenges and opportunities for South-South and triangular cooperation in the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
• Rita Hernández, Director of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica, in her capacity as Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of ECLAC
• Leslie Campbell, State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, in his capacity as Vice-Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of ECLAC
• Déborah Rivas Saavedra, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment of Cuba, in her capacity as Vice-Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation
• Juan Ignacio Roccatagliata, Minister, Department of Multilateral Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Worship and International Trade of Argentina, in his capacity as Vice-Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of ECLAC

Statements by the delegations

3–3.20 p.m.    A strategy for cooperation for middle-income countries
Presented by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
• Mario Pezzini, Director of the Development Centre of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

3.20–3.40 p.m. Action lines of the Committee on South-South Cooperation for the period 2021–2022
• Rita Hernández, Director of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica, in her capacity as Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of ECLAC
• Laura Elena Carrillo Cubillas, Executive Director of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID), in her capacity as Vice-Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of ECLAC
• José Antonio González Norris, Executive Director of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI), in his capacity as Vice-Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of ECLAC

Statements by the delegations

3.45– 3.50 p.m.    Adoption of agreements

3.50 –4 p.m.    Close of the meeting
• Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
• Rita Hernández, Director of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica, in her capacity as Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of ECLAC