Regional Meeting on “Institutional Framework for Integration

in Latin America and the Caribbean”

Headquarters of the Permanent Secretariat of SELA

Torre Europa, 5^th floor, Andrés Bello Conference Room,

Campo Alegre. Caracas, Venezuela.

3 and 4 July, 2007

 

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Background

 

Among SELA’s fundamental purposes are the promotion of a consultation and coordination system for the adoption of common positions and strategies of Latin America and the Caribbean on economic and social issues, as well as the support for the region’s integration processes for encouraging its articulation and convergence.

 

In this connection, the Permanent Secretariat of SELA has carried out several analytical efforts relating to the institutional architecture for integration processes during past years.

 

Considering that the design and construction of an adequate institutional structure for integration are closely linked to the level of consolidation for the efforts of integration efforts, the Member States of SELA agreed that it would be convenient to continue analyzing these items and, therefore, approved in the Work Programme for year 2007, the holding of a regional meeting on the institutionalization of integration in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

 

 

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Objectives

 

The objectives of said meeting will be as follows:

 

1. To carry out an analysis of the various aspects which conform the current institutional framework of the integration processes in the region.

2. To advance towards coordination of lines of action conducive to the achievement of an institutional system, for deepening the process of integration in the region.

3. To suggest means of action to achieve a progressive adaptation of the institutional framework of integration towards the needs for consolidation, strengthening, social projection, articulation and convergence.

 

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Provisional Work Programme

 

Tuesday, 3 July 2007

 

Morning

 

08:30 a.m. – 09:00 a.m.	Registration of participants and accreditation
09:30 a.m. – 09:30 a.m.	Installation ceremony by the Permanent Secretary of SELA, Ambassador Floria Caricote Lovera   Address by His Excellency Gerónimo Cardozo Ambassador of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay in Venezuela And Chairman of the Latin American Council
09:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.	Coffee Break
09:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	Presentation of the document prepared by the Permanent Secretariat – Dr. Jaime Estay Reyno, Consultant
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Comments made on SELA’s documents as follows: Dr. Francine Jácome, Executive Director of INVESP
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Debate

 

Afternoon

 

02:30 p.m.  – 03:15 p.m..

ECLAC and the institutional architecture for integration in Latin America and the Caribbean Dr. Osvaldo Rosales, Director of the International and Integration Trade Division of ECLAC

03:15 p.m. – 04:00 p.m.	The prospects of MERCOSUR Ariela Ruiz Caro, Economist Adviser, Presidency of the Permanent Representatives’ Commission of MERCOSUR
04:00 p.m. – 04:15 p.m.	Coffee Break
04:15 p.m. – 05:00 p.m.	Debate
05:00 p.m. – 05:20 p.m.	Summary of the first day’s discussions

 

Wednesday, 4 July 2007

 

Morning

 

09:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	The prospects of CARICOM  Ms. Valerie Alleyne-Odle, Programme Manager, Division of Foreign Policy and Community Relations General Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	ALBA and the Latin American and Caribbean integration Dr. Franklin Molina, Adviser to the Viceminister for Latin America and the Caribbean,Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Coffee break
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Debate
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.	Challenges of the institutional architecture for regional financial integration The prospects of CAF Miguel Castilla, Chief Economist of CAF and Head of Public Policies and Competitiveness.  Bank of the South and Latin American and Caribbean integration Carlos Ramones, Vice minister of Regulation and Control, Ministery of Finance of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
12:45 p.m. – 02:00 p.m.	Summary and conclusions of the meeting
02:00 p.m. – 03:30 p.m.	Cocktail

 

Final Report on the Regional Meeting on Institutional Architecture for Integration
in Latin America and the Caribbean

SP/RR-IIALC/IF- 07

 

Conclusions and Recommendations of the Regional Meeting on institutional architecture
for integration in Latin America and the Caribbean
SP/RR-IIALCDT Nº1 –07/Rev.

 

Presentations

 

Arquitectura institucional para la articulación y la convergencia de la integración
SP/RR-IIALC/Di N° 4 – 07 (Available only in Spanish)
Dr. Jaime Estay, Consultant
University of Puebla, Mexico
 

La institucionalidad e integración en América Latina y el Caribe: los retos de los organismos regionales
y subregionales - ¿Qué sucedió en el Siglo XIX?
SP/RR-IIALC/Di N° 2 – 07 (Available only in Spanish)

Dr. Ramiro León Torras
Main Specialist of the Direction of International Economic Organizations
of the Ministry for Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Cuba

 

Integración regional: propuestas de renovación

SP/RR-IIALC/Di N° 5 – 07  (available only in Spanish)
Dr. Osvaldo Rosales, Director of the International and Integration Trade Division of ECLAC
 

La institucionalidad en el MERCOSUR

SP/RR-IIALC/Di N° 6 – 07  (Available only in Spanish)
Ariela Ruiz Caro, Economist

Adviser, Presidency of the Permanent Representatives Commission of MERCOSUR

 

The Caribbean Community and Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM)
- Institutional Challenges and Prospects

SP/RR-IIALC/Di N° 7 – 07
Ms. Valerie Alleyne-Odle

Programme Manager,Division of Foreign Policy and Community Relations

General Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

 

Construyendo el ALBA: Alternativa Bolivariana para América Latina y el Caribe
Impulsando la integración de los pueblos de nuestra América
SP/RR-IIALC/Di N° 8 – 07  (Available only in Spanish)

Dr. Franklin Molina

Adviser to the Viceminister for Latin America and the Caribbean,
Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
 

La CAF y los desafíos regionales
SP/RR-IIALC/Di N° 9– 07  (Available only in Spanish)
Miguel Castilla

Chief Economist of CAF and Head of Public Policies and Competitiveness. 

 

 

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Documents

 

Base document for the meeting:
 

“Institutional Architecture for coordination and convergence of Integration in Latin America
 and the Caribbean”

SP/RRIIALC/DT No. 1- 07 (The English version is not ready as yet)

 

Provisional Work Programme

SP/RR-IIALC/DT N° 2 - 07 

 

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