Innovation in the midst of cooperation are the lines of work that will stand out in the meeting.
Colombia assumes a role of regional and interregional leadership, calling on the coffee axis to a diversity of public and private, subnational, multilateral, academic and community actors to dialogue, share good practices and boost innovations in international cooperation mechanisms.
With the presence of delegates from 32 countries in Quindío, the Presidential Agency for International Cooperation wants to strengthen the articulation with these nations and show that Colombia can be a reference in the global south.
In the midst of the challenges that the Global South countries are going through cooperationthe delegates of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are gathered, with the presence of actors of the national, regional and territorial level.
The general director of the Presidential Agency for International Cooperation, Eleonora Betancur González, said that this time the motto is ‘Our North is the South’, within the framework of the event called ‘Innovation in South – South Cooperation’.
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He indicated that a replication of official cooperation is being suffered, so he pointed out that the event becomes an opportunity to open new roads.
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“It is a strategy to open the way to other actors, to the global south, to countries and demonstrate that we have a cooperation that can be more horizontal, between equals, Not only dependent on the global northernbut strengthens competitions from the south, ”said Eleonora Betancur.
The Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs, Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, said that international cooperation It must be more connected to the territoriesso it stressed that the meeting is being held in the department of Quindío.
“We, as the Foreign Ministry, have been criticized when we take out the symposia, conferences, the summits of the big cities. We cannot come to the territoriesand Do not take note of the expectations that you have respect What our diplomacy should be, ”said Mauricio Jaramillo.
The director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, Dima Al-Khatib, He stressed that this should be a call to action to change perceptions and the positions of the southern countries as leaders and innovative.
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An example of this and as explained by the general director of the ACP, Eleonora Betancur González, has been the creation of a peace construction program, which has allowed to show other countries what they learned in that matterbetween what has worked and what not.
“Countries like Ethiopia and Pilipinas that go through things similar to ours learn from our institutionality, we believe an exchange of knowledge in the face of peace construction issues, Because Colombia is seen as a place where new instruments have been created”, Said the director of the ACP.
The agenda takes place at the Mocawa Ressort hotel in the municipality of La Tebaida (Quindío) and will go until September 12 with the presentation of multiple panelists in different areas.
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