On Tuesday 25 October, the intergovernmental meeting in Montevideo will be opened by President Tabaré Vázquez, together with other high-level authorities of Uruguay and representatives of United Nations agencies.
ECLAC and the Government of Uruguay will organize on October 25-28 the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will include a series of panel discussions and side events.
Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu and ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, signed an agreement regarding the organization’s thirty-sixth session, which will be held on May 23-27.