This Friday, January 7, Argentina will host the XXII Summit of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Celac, marked by the candidacy of this nation to exercise the 2022 protémpore presidency.
The Argentine Foreign Ministry has been working for several days to carry out the meeting, this time the sessions will be face-to-face and virtual, the first of that mechanism that this nation will host. Last year Mexico held the presidency, this year Argentina is a candidate to assume it, and has the endorsement of 31 of the 32 countries that comprise it.
Argentina will welcome several foreign ministers who will be present at the meeting and, as reported, several of them will arrive the day before and that same night they will be treated to an honor dinner at the Kirchner Cultural Center, reported the Prensa Latina news agency.
On Friday, the host Chancellor Santiago Cafiero will welcome his peers and present to the plenary the proposal to command the regional bloc for the next term.
Cafiero highlighted the importance for Argentina of Celac as a mechanism for Latin American and Caribbean integration and cooperation in the search for economic and social development, and its role in strengthening the democracies and freedoms of the countries that comprise it.
Argentina is a strong candidate to assume the presidency of the regional bloc this year, having the endorsement of 31 of the 32 countries that comprise it.
