First meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

The first meeting of the Presiding Officers will be held in person on 19 June 2024. The currently serving Presiding Officers were elected at the first session of the Regional Conference, held in May 2023, and comprise Argentina as Chair and Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain and Uruguay as Vice-Chairs. At that session, resolution 1(I) was adopted, in which the Presiding Officers and the member countries of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean were requested to promote the strengthening of synergies and partnerships with other stakeholders such as development banks, the private sector and regional and subregional integration mechanisms, as well as multi-stakeholder partnerships with civil society, local governments and academia in matters related to international development cooperation. They were also urged to identify common criteria to guide evaluation and assessment of these cooperation modalities and their impacts, and that take into account the conceptual framework for the measurement of South-South cooperation.