Monday, 06 January 2014 00:10
BY VÍCTOR MAYÉN
The News
The Senate will create a panel to analyze the challenges facing
Mexico in foreign policy, Senate Foreign Relations Committee President
Laura Angélica Rojas Hernández said on Sunday.
Rojas Hernández, a member of the National Action Party (PAN), said
that the event will be held on Jan. 11 and will be organized together
with the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE), the Mexican International
Affairs Council (Comexi), the Mexican International Affairs Association
(Amei) and the Latin American edition of Foreign Affairs magazine.
She went on to say that the panel, which will bring together Mexico’s
representatives to various international organizations, will cover
issues such as human rights, climate change, immigration, disarmament,
the reform of the security council, drugs, the post-2015 development
agenda, private rights and peacekeeping operations, among others.
Participants will include Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo, undersecretary
for multilateral affairs and human rights at the SRE; Jorge Mario
Montaño y Martínez, Mexico’s permanent representative to the United
Nations; Emilio Rabasa Gamboa, Mexico’s permanent representative to the
Organization of American States (OAS); Jorge Lomónaco Tonda, who
represents Mexico at various Geneva-based international organizations,
such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the World
Health Organization (WHO), the International Labor Organization (ILO),
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Luis Alfonso de Alba Góngora, Mexico’s permanent representative to
international organizations based in Vienna, including the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations
Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space (COPUOS), the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) and
the Wassenaar Arrangement will also participate.
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