The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry reported that on Tuesday they will analyze the main challenges of the region and the roadmap for the Cuenca Declaration, which will be approved on Friday, November 15, the final day of the forum.

Likewise, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador indicated that the meeting will address issues such as the 2030 Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals, intergovernmental goals, poverty eradication, among others.

Cuba is represented at the event by a delegation headed by Rodolfo Benítez, director general of Multilateral Affairs and International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the island and national coordinator of the Ibero-American Conference.

Although it has not been officially confirmed which heads of State or Government will be present at the meeting, the media warns that this Summit will register a record of absent leaders since these meetings began to be held in 1991.

The event is marked by the order of the Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboa, to break into the Mexican embassy in Quito on April 5 to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas, who had been granted asylum by the Mexican government.

Precisely the International Committee for the Freedom of Glas rejected the forum because it is “strange and contrary” to the values ​​of the Summit to hold the event in a country whose government “violates norms of coexistence between States and holds Glas hostage, who has the right to asylum.”

Meanwhile, anti-mining social organizations in Ecuador will hold a Counter Summit of Peoples in Resistance in Cuenca this week to discuss the problems that affect them at the local, national and regional level, and to propose alternatives and solutions built collectively.

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