Tue, Apr 01 2025

• Raúl Prebisch Conference Room
  Opening ceremony
  08:30 am to 09:15 am

   • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)  
  • Félix Denegri, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, the country serving as Chair of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development.  
  • Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations
  • Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations  (pre-recorded video)  

  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs Discurso inaugural del Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL
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  Adoption of the agenda
  09:15 am to 09:20 am
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  Opening of the dialogues on global action
  09:20 am to 09:30 am

  • Keynote statement by Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

  Moderator: Félix Denegri, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, the country serving as Chair of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development. 

• Raúl Prebisch Conference Room
  Session on the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (Seville, Spain, 2025)
  09:30 am to 10:30 am

  Moderator: Roberto Carlos Ramirez, Undersecretary of Finance, Honduras
  Statement by Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations  

  • José Antonio Ocampo, Professor of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (virtual)
  • Daniel Titelman, Chief of the Economic Development Division of ECLAC
  • Dinorah Singer, Senior Executive at the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) in Chile
  • Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica (pre-recorded video)  

  Roberto Carlos Ramirez Avances en el Financiamiento en Proyectos para el Desarrollo Sostenible de Honduras
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  Statements by delegations
  10:30 am to 11:00 am
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  Session on the Second World Summit for Social Development (Qatar, 2025)
  11:00 am to 12:00 pm

  Moderator: Michelle Muschett, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Statement by Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations

  • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
  • Kirk Humphrey, Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs of Barbados
  • Javiera Toro, Minister of Social Development and Family Affairs of Chile  
  • Leslie Carol Urteaga Peña, Minister of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru
  • Laís Abramo, National Secretary for Care and Family, Ministry of Social Development and the Fight against Hunger of Brazil  
  • Juan Somavía, former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Chair of the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995)
  • Yamile Socolovsky, President of the Committee of Working Women of the Americas (CMTA-CSA) 

• Raúl Prebisch Conference Room
  Statements by delegations
  12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
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  Launch of the book Repensar el desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe: contribuciones de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en su 75° aniversario, by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC
  01:00 pm to 01:15 pm

  By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC  

• Raúl Prebisch Conference Room
  Session on the thirtieth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Belém do Pará, Brazil, 2025)
  02:30 pm to 03:30 pm

  Moderator: Manuel Pulgar Vidal, global leader of climate and energy at the World Wide Fund for Nature International

  • Paulo Roberto Soares Pacheco, Ambassador of Brazil to Chile
  • Dwight G. Sutherland, Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance of Barbados
  • Macarena Sánchez, Director of Environment and Impact for Chile, Peru and Ecuador at Patagonia, Inc.
  • Daniel Seidel, Coordinator of the Ecclesial Network for Justice and Peace of the Greater Homeland  

  Daniel Seidel PREPARAÇÃO PARA A COP 30: um chamado à conversão ecológica, transformação e resistência às falsas soluções climáticas
  Kennethia Douglas Trinidad and Tobago’s priorities and perspectives in preparation for the Thirtieth Session of the Conference of the Parties
• Raúl Prebisch Conference Room
  Statements by delegations
  03:30 pm to 04:00 pm
• Raúl Prebisch Conference Room
  Session on the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995)
  04:00 pm to 05:00 pm

  Moderator: Laura Moreno, Ambassador of Mexico to Chile
   
  • 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)  
  • Virginia Albert-Poyotte, Minister of Public Service, Home Affairs, Labour and Gender Affairs of Saint Lucia (virtual)  
  • Virginia Vargas, co-founder of the Flora Tristán Centre of Peru and member of Articulación Feminista Marcosur  
  • Noemi Espinoza Madrid, Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) 

  Laura Moreno Hoja de ruta hacia XVI CRM (México 2025)
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  Statements by delegations
  05:00 pm to 05:30 pm
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  Session on the Pact for the Future
  05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

  Moderator: Gloria de la Fuente, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile  

  • Hugo Francisco Rivera, Vice-Minister of Exterior Relations, Economic Affairs and International Cooperation of the Dominican Republic  
  • Inga Rhonda King, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations, in her capacity as co-facilitator of the ministerial declaration of the 2025 high-level political forum (virtual)
  • Themba Kalua, Director for the Pact for the Future Implementation in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (virtual)
  • Philipp Schönrock, Director of the Centre for International Strategic Thinking (CEPEI)  
  • Rolando Pelicot Ruiz, social entrepreneur and activist for peace, education and climate action and member of the Resolution Project
  • Rosario Díaz Garavito, co-facilitator of the impact coalition for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Pact for the Future  
  • Marcela Browne, Education Coordinator of Fundación SES of Argentina
  • Albert Ramdin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Suriname and Secretary Generalelect of the Organization of the American States (OAS) (pre-recorded video)
  • Mario Lubetkin, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uruguay (pre-recorded video) 

• Raúl Prebisch Conference Room
  Statements by delegations
  06:30 pm to 07:00 pm