The Pacific Alliance (PA) further advanced its integration
this Thursday with a meeting to assess its relationship with the Observer
States and to strengthen the group’s interactions with them. At the meeting in Mexico
City, the four PA member countries discussed current cooperation projects shared
with the Observer States in areas such as education, innovation and
competitiveness.
Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu, Peruvian
Foreign Minister Ana Maria Sanchez, the Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs
of Colombia, Francisco Javier Echeverri, and the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs
of Chile, Edgardo Riveros, all attended the meeting. They identified strategic goals
and actions and discussed the 11th Pacific Alliance Summit, scheduled to be held
in Chile this July.
In 2011, the Heads of State of Chile, Colombia,
Mexico and Peru agreed in the Lima Declaration to create the Pacific Alliance in
order to move gradually towards the free movement of goods, services, capital
and people.
The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, presented a cooperation project for fisheries at the meeting.
