Senate to create a foreign panel

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.