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Session with interpretation in English and Spanish, and international sign language

(closed meeting)

Seventh report on regional progress and challenges in relation to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

• José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC

Moderator: Roberto Valent, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Development Coordination Office (DCO) of the United Nations

Presentation of the 2023 system-wide results report of the Regional Collaborative Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean

By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and Michelle Muschett, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of UNDP, in their capacity as Vice-Chairs of the Regional Collaborative Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean

Moderator: María-Noel Vaeza, Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)

• Irais Graciela Barreto Canales, Executive Secretary of the National Council for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Chief of the Global Economic Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Mexico
• Jorge Aldana, Mayor of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
• Andrea Repetto, President of Fundación Superación de la Pobreza of Chile
• Igor Pantoja, Coordinator for Institutional Relations of Instituto Cidades Sustentáveis of Brazil and representative of the Mechanism for Civil Society Participation in the Sustainable Development Agenda and in the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development
• Elbert Ellis, Senior Operations Officer, Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) (virtual)
• Wellington Dias, Minister for Social Development and Assistance, Family Affairs and the Fight against Hunger of Brazil (pre-recorded video)
• Luis Felipe López-Calva, Global Director of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank (pre-recorded video)

• Statements by delegations

Moderator: Patricia Madrigal, Chair of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement)

• Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs of the United Nations (by video link)
• Candice Welsch, Regional Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the Andean Region and the Southern Cone
• Fernando Carrión, academic in the Department of Political Science at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Ecuador (FLACSO Ecuador)
• Marcela Ríos Tobar, Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
• Gabriela Agosto, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Leadership and Foresight of the University of Salvador (USAL) of Argentina
• Mónica Jasis, Co-Director of Centro Mujeres A.C of Mexico and representative of the Mechanism for Civil Society Participation in the Sustainable Development Agenda and in the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

• Statements by delegations