Four presidents, 193 Foreign Ministers and 1,500 participants travel to Argentina for the UN Summit on South-South Cooperation

Four presidents, more than 190 foreign ministers, 1,500 participants, 22 plenary sessions and a strong commitment to strengthen cooperation between countries around the world. In this context will begin today the second United Nations summit on South-South cooperation it will be made in Argentina.

Forty years ago, the "Buenos Aires Plan of Action" (BAPA) emerged from this South-South Cooperation Conference of the United Nations. This is why the opening of this summit that begins today and will last three days will be a real milestone for the History of Argentine diplomacy.

"We are interested in promoting global cooperation." Argentina has more than 150 cooperation projects with the world, and we know that our country has a lot to contribute in terms of health, agricultural badistance and education. technology. This value of cooperation is fundamental for the development of the countries gathered at this summit."he explained to Infobae Chancellor Jorge Faurie.

In collaboration with the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, President Mauricio Macri will open at 10 am today the summit to be held at the Exhibition Center of the city of Buenos Aires and will seek to carry a message of affirmation of diplomatic cooperation as the axis of development of the countries .

Among the 1,500 participants are leaders of international organizations, diplomats, academics and specialists from the various topics on the agenda of the conference. It is expected that there will be 22 plenary sessions and more than 100 parallel working meetings.

Until last week, the UN Secretary General had not confirmed his presence in Buenos Aires despite repeated invitations from the Argentine government. It was badumed that Guterres was concerned that at the summit there would be a debate on the crisis in Venezuela and that the problems would be mixed.

However, last week Chancellor Faurie was adamant: "The conference does not consider Venezuela as an axis of debate, but it is very likely that many countries present will evaluate humanitarian cooperation at the heart of the crisis that Venezuela is going through."

After the plenary and the debates, there should be a closing session during which a new Buenos Aires action plan will emerge (PABA + 40). This document will be known four decades after the Plan of Action adopted by the UN in 1978, at another summit also held in the Argentine capital, during which developing countries defined a set of strategies and recommendations to to advance technical cooperation issues.

The multilateral conference is the most important cooperation summit of the emerging world and the exchange of experiences and knowledge will be discussed and badyzed with the aim of strengthening the capacities of States.

President Macri will open the summit at 10 am at CEC headquarters, located on Figueroa Alcorta and Pueyrredón avenues, in the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires. Previously, he will meet with the Secretary-General of the United Nations and will tour with the other heads of state present in the different pavilions hosting the conference, including those from Argentina, the United Nations, China, Paraguay and d & # 39; Uruguay. and Chile.

Later, Macri will continue his agenda with a meeting that he will hold with the president of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid. At 11 am, he will meet King Mswati III of Swaziland and Ecuadorian diplomat María Fernanda Espinosa, President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Around noon, Macri plans a lunch at the Olivos residence with the Presidents of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez; of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez and Chile, Sebastián Piñera. But in this case, the agenda will not be exclusively from the South Sir Summit. The theme of the 203rd World Cup will be the one to which the four countries of the region aspire to present themselves and, of course, a dialogue will be held Friday in Chile, where the presidents of Latin America will largely seek to ban to UNASUR to create the least ideological and more pragmatic than the bolivarian block that emerged 15 years ago under the heat of Higo Chavez, Lula Da Silva, Néstor Kirchner and Evo Morales.