Mexico and Colombia will promote women for the UN

Alma E. Muñoz and Emir Olivares

La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, December 20, 2024, p. 7

With the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, we agreed to promote women as candidates for the General Secretariat of the UN and the Organization of American States (OAS), President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo ratified yesterday.

He said that, in the meeting last Monday, at the National Palace, We talk about it. It is important in the OAS, obviously it is Latin America and the Caribbean. Then we can reach an agreement between several countries to be able to promote a candidacy with a vision different from the current one..

And also for the United Nations, that a woman can head the General Secretariat and it is not that we have mentioned names in particular, but to start working on it.

In his usual press conference, he indicated that he asked Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente and the head of the Office of the Presidency, Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, to get involved in these issues.

Promote the candidacy of a woman, It is a different vision, of shared prosperityhe stated.

When asked if he had a candidate, he stated that he did not. we are still in talks.