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A group of approximately 30 parliamentarians and experts from the Finnish Parliament’s Committee for the Future visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. There they met with the institution’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, and learned about the United Nations organization’s main lines of work in the region.
The delegation was led by Carl Haglund, President of the Finnish Parliament’s Committee for the Future, and included various members of that body as well as education experts from the Nordic country.
During the visit, other participants included Mika-Markus Leinonen, Finland’s Ambassador to Chile; Sergio Bitar, a former senator and cabinet minister in Chile and current President of the Chilean Council of Foresight and Strategy; and Carlos Cantero, a mining consultant and former senator.
Antonio Prado welcomed them on behalf of ECLAC and presented them with the Commission’s most recent proposals, grouped together in the “trilogy of equality,” which consists of the institutional documents released during the entity’s last three sessions, defining its roadmap as the promoter of development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Specialists belonging to ECLAC also presented to the delegation the organization’s main studies on the issues of science and technology, education and planning.
The Committee for the Future is one of the Finnish Parliament’s 16 standing committees. It is made up of 17 parliamentarians from the country’s different political parties and its objective is to think up innovative actions that promote the best possible future for all people.
