Declaration of Buenos Aires brings topics such as post-pandemic recovery and support for COP-30 in Belém; Brazil was featured
The 7th Summit of CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) –which brings together 33 countries from the hemisphere– ended this Tuesday (24.jan.2023) with the approval of a final text, the Declaration of Buenos Aires (full– 171 KB).
The event held in Argentina had as its main highlight the return of Brazil, with the participation of the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), on his 1st international trip of the 3rd term. The country had withdrawn from the organization in 2020, in the management of Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
The final document of the meeting has more than 100 topics and almost 30 pages. It addresses a shared vision in several areas, with emphasis on post-pandemic economic recovery, food and energy security, health strategy, cooperation in the environment, science and technology, digital transformation, infrastructure, among others.
One of the ratified measures is the decision to hold a Celac-European Union Summit in 2023, as well as a Celac-China Summit in 2024.
The bloc’s countries welcomed, in the document, Brazil’s candidacy to host the COP-30 (30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), in 2025, in the city of Belém, in the State of Pará.
Other topics contained in the document are the decisions to call a meeting of Celac’s economy ministers for the 1st half of 2023, focusing on the economic recovery agenda. The document also contains the update of the Food Security, Nutrition and Hunger Eradication Plan, the continuity of the Sanitary Self-Sufficiency Plan and the strengthening of production capacities and local and regional distribution of vaccines, medicines and critical inputs.
the presidency pro tempore (temporary, from Latin) of Celac in 2023 was assigned, by consensus, to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a country in the Caribbean.
special declarations
In addition to the main declaration, the 7th CELAC Summit approved 11 more special declarations, including sensitive topics such as the defense of Argentine sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands.
Declarations were also approved demanding the end of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, a declaration on the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment, a declaration on nuclear disarmament, another on integration, and a declaration on environmental protection.
Celac also approved a declaration on combating international arms trafficking and another on the promotion and preservation of indigenous languages.
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