HAVANA, Cuba.- Cuba will lead an intensive work agenda up to 2020, at the forefront of the Presidency of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which is developing its thirty-seventh session in Havana.

Raul Garcia-Buchaca, Deputy Executive Secretary for Program Management and Analysis of ECLAC, presented the report of the activities undertaken by that regional body since the previous session, and the draft program for the next two years.

In the presence of Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, the official referred to work objectives that include different dimensions of great interest, with emphasis on their implementation.

According to Garcia-Buchaca, ECLAC will also focus on promoting public policies to face gaps generated by inequality.

ECLAC for an Egalitarian World

In the context of the discussions, led by the Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, ECLAC´s milestones were recognized during its last two years of work.

Until next Friday, representatives of ECLAC member States and partners will discuss in the Convention Palace of Havana multiple issues of interest to the development of this agency.

Among the main axes of analysis of the meeting is inefficiency of inequality, as it is named the document collecting ECLAC´s positions on the consequences of inequality and its strategies against it.

Since the triumph of the Revolution, Cuba welcomes for the first time one of the meetings of the Commission, which is the most important meeting of this regional mechanism.