Tue, Aug 18 2026

• Opening session
  04:00 pm to 05:00 pm

  • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  • Diene Keita, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
  • Cristina Lustemberg Haro, Minister of Public Health of Uruguay

  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Palabras de apertura
• Election of officers
  05:00 pm to 05:15 pm
• Report of the outgoing Chair and the Cartagena group on the activities conducted in 2024–2026
  05:15 pm to 05:30 pm

  Presented by Francisco José Coy Granados, Ambassador of Colombia in Uruguay, in his capacity as outgoing Chair

  Francisco José Coy Granados - Informe de actividades del período 2024-2026 de la Presidencia saliente y del Grupo de Cartagena
• Reading of the civil society statement
  05:30 pm to 05:45 pm

  •   Foro de la Sociedad Civil: Line Bareiro
  •   Foro de juventudes, Selene Guañabens
  •   Primer Foro Regional del Sector Privado

  Cecilia Olea Mauleon - Declaración Foro Sociedad Cevil
  Selene Guañabens - Declaración Foro de Juventudes
  Gabriel Storch - Declaración Foro Regional del Sector Privado
• Official photograph of heads of delegation
  05:45 pm to 06:00 pm