Los Angeles, California, United States. Minister Erika Mouynes, as part of the delegation that President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen leads, participated with the Secretary of State of the United State Antony Blinken, in the ministerial meeting of the closing of the Summit Implementation Review Group of the Americas, within which some fundamental texts were approved that will be submitted for the assessment of the presidents attending the IX edition of these calls, inaugurated this Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Among other documents, support was given to the plans of action for health, green transition, energy and environment, digital transformation, and democratic governing. The panel in which the President of Panama presided with Canada proposed initiatives to re-enforce democracy and support the workforce for the electoral missions of the Organization of the United States or OEA in Spanish, strengthen the Democratic Card and the compromise against corruption, central themes of the presidential appointments of which Panama participated.
As well, the Panamanian ministry was one of the governmental interlocutors in the Forum for Civil Society and Social Actors with the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, of which the Panamanian Adela Panizo Asprilla was part as well.
With the counterpart of the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, the chancellor was witness to the new encounter of the president of the countries in the Alliance for the Development of Democracy that gave welcome to the newly elected president of the latter country Rodrigo Chaves.
In a meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Canada, Melanie Joly touched on the important economic and important themes for Panama like the application to amplify the number of aerial frequencies between the two countries and receive more Canadian tourists. They have already shown a predilection for the Panamanian offer, in addition to greater support in the processing of Canadian visas, to strengthen the coming together of both peoples, particularly investors and sportsmen.
Also with minister Joly, the chancellor of Chile, Antonia Urrejola, and Samantha Power, administrator for the Agency of International Cooperation of the United States (USAID), the Panamanian chancellor was a panelist in the Leadership Forum of Women: Advancing in the Equality of Gender and Democracy in the Americas, where the "Panamanian Plan to Promote Participation of Women in Public Affairs" was presented in the presence of the Panamanian Maria del Carmen Plata, secretary of Equity, Rights, and Access of the OEA; Alejandra Mora Mora,
Executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Women and Clarissa Etienne, director of the Organization of Pan American health or OPS in Spanish.
As part of the work agenda and the reinforcement of the Diplomatic Climate Strategy in the development of the Ministry, the minister Mouynes attended the joint declaration for the protection of the oceans, "America for the Protection of the Ocean," that Panama subscribes to jointly with Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, United States, Mexico, and Peru.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mouynes intervened, herself, in the closing session of the VI Forum of the Young Americans, followed through the means of more than 2,000 young people with the president of Colombia, Ivan Duque, and the Ambassador of Peru in the OEA Harold Forsyth who asserted the importance of securing real spaces of representation for young people in decision making.
The same space coincided with the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, who talked about the proposal to include environmental education as part of the academic curriculum within primary education.
During the interventions, as part of the delegation that accompanies the president Laurentino Cortizo Cohen to the IX Summit of the Americas "Constructing a sustainable, resilient, and equitable future", the Ministry of Foreign Relations established the Panamanian will to input initiatives to resolve the joint, common problems that confront the region not only for the effect of the pandemic but also for the scarcities and vulnerabilities of other countries of the continent.