The Chief Executive invited the leaders of the Americas to pass concrete actions and respond to the shared challenges with one voice.
He emphasized that the region has unique forces that can create a great effort to surpass today's challenges and those of the future.
Panama can contribute to the economic recuperation with its logistic capacities: better maritime connection, area, and digital from the region, and "the conviction of the Panamanians in the value of peace, cohabitation, and the union of our people."
The president of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, during his intervention in the first plenary session of the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, United States, warned other leaders of the hemisphere that one of the most pressing challenges that confront the Americas today is the irregular migration crisis that has roots in the lack of opportunities for the migrants in their country of origin.
"Would you abandon your country if you had to live with all the living conditions that force you to look for life in other countries?" questioned Cortizo Cohen before the auditorium located in the Los Angeles Convention Center.
"The responses to this situation demand effective actions from each country with shared regional support", Cortizo Cohen underlined.
The Panamanian government also declares that in today's world in the middle the effects of the pandemic and the drama from the war in Ukraine create unprecedented, concrete impacts on the cost of combustibles and food resources whose consequences aggravate the material conditions of the most vulnerable sectors.
Cortizo Cohen took the opportunity to call the leaders of the Americas to refocus actions and work together in better regional unity that would allow us to move forward in this changing global reality, find mechanisms, and financial resources, and help us maintain the completion of the sustainable development objectives.
Cortizo Cohen emphasized that our region has richness and diversity; each one of our countries counts on unique forces that can support the great, unified effort to surpass the challenges of today and the future.
In this effort, Cortizo Cohen said that Panama can contribute with its logistic capacities that include better maritime, areal, and digital connection to the region; "the Panama Canal and its 180 maritime routes that serve 1,920 ports in 170 countries; the Logistic, Regional Center for Humanitarian Aid, and above all "the conviction of the Panamanians in the value of peace, cohabitation, and the union of our people."
In relation to climate change, the Panamanian president unveiled that Panama does its job punctually and in some cases anticipatingly alongside the compromises contracted for the conservation and protection of the life of the planet.
"Panama is one of the three countries in the world declared to be carbon negative and who also achieved 30% protection of its marine areas nine years before the term began for compliance for global goals, he highlighted.
In the first hours this morning, Cortizo Cohen signed the declaration, "America for the Protection of the Oceans" alongside other leaders of the region: tomorrow, Friday the 10th of June, he will continue his work agenda in Los Angeles with a bilateral reunion with the president Gabriel Boric from Chile, and he will participate in the second plenary session of the IX Summit of the Americas, whose slogan is "Constructing a sustainable, resilient, and equitable future."
The Summit has been celebrated approximately one time every three years since 1994 and is the only meeting with all the leaders from the countries of North America, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
The panamanian delegation is programmed to return to the country on the 11th of June during the night.