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OAS Promotes the Role of Multilateral Organizations in South-South Cooperation

  October 1, 2012

The Organization of American States (OAS), through the Technical Secretariat of the Inter-American Cooperation Network (CooperaNet), will co-organize the Round Table titled "Key Actors for South-South Cooperation: the New role of the Multilaterals,” on Tuesday, October 2, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

The OAS is organizing the event together with ECLAC and the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation of the United Nations Development Program, in the context of the "High Level Forum on South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean," sponsored by the Chilean government. The Round Table will be attended by Ambassador Alfonso Quiñonez, Secretary for External Relations of the OAS; Rogel Nuguid, representative of the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation and Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC.

The Round Table is being held within the framework of the "High-Level Forum on South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean,” organized by the Chilean Agency for International Cooperation (AGCI), from October 1 to 3 in Santiago, Chile. The High Level Forum will focus on global partnerships for development and South-South cooperation, with the aim of establishing new sector issues and new challenges.

Further information about Cooperanet is available at:www.cooperanet.org .

WHAT: Round Table: "Key Actors for South-South Cooperation: the New Role of the Multilaterals"

WHEN: Tuesday, October 2, 14:00 -16:45 pm local (11:00 to 13:45 GMT)

WHERE:ECLAC
Raúl Prebisch Conference Room, Av Dag Hammarskjöld 3477
Vitacura, Santiago, Chile

Reference: AVI-204/12