The Vice President, José Gabriel Carrizo Jaén, will represent the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, at the seventy-seventh regular session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), in New York, United States.
The expenses of this trip will be paid by the vice president himself, who will speak before the UN assembly this Thursday, September 22 in the afternoon and his speech will be broadcast throughout the country through the state television SERTV.
The 77th session of the United Nations has the task of following up on the commitments of the countries that it brings together, and among which Panama stands out as a founding member, in the face of the complex consequences of the pandemic and other conflicts with global consequences, such as climate change and its effects, especially in developing countries, such as poverty, inequality and hunger, triggers of the aforementioned growing phenomenon of generalized migration.
Carrizo Jaén, who will travel on a commercial flight covering his transportation and accommodation expenses, will be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Erika Mouynes.
Within the framework of the General Assembly, important parallel events are held, such as the Climate Week in New York, panels of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the World Biodiversity Summit (WBS), the ministerial meeting of the Group of low-income countries media, and meetings with groups of philanthropists and analysis forums.
