This agreement between ECLAC and ACTO establishes the terms and mechanisms of collaboration to the development and execution of technical cooperation initiatives to identify and strengthen the prospects for sustainable development in the Amazon Region, advancing adequately into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.
The Amazon Region continues to need the greatest attention from governments and from different actors that can make a substantial difference, in a better future of the immense natural, cultural, social and economic wealth that inhabits it.
The 1978 Amazon Cooperation Treaty was signed by the 8 Member Countries, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, with the common purpose of combining efforts, to promote the harmonious development of the Amazon, which allow an equitable distribution of the benefits of such development among the Contracting Parties, to raise the standard of living of their peoples and to achieve the full incorporation of their Amazonian territories into the respective national economies. Premises that today continue with structural slopes to achieve them.
The coordinating meeting was joined by ACTO, the Executive Director, Ambassador, Carlos Alfredo Lazary and the Advisor to the Technical Support Unit, Diego Pacheco.
By CEPAL, the Officer in Charge of the Social Development Division, Simone Cecchini, the Director of the Division of Human Settlements, José Luis Samaniego, and the Economic Affairs Officer of the Division of Sustainable Development and Human Settlements, José Javier, participated.
