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The Fourth Agriculture Ministerial
Meeting, “Agriculture and Rural Life in the Americas,” will take
place in Antigua, Guatemala, on July 23rd and 24th, hosted by
Guatemala’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Nutrition, in
conjunction with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on
Agriculture. This high level meeting of regional Ministers of
Agriculture will be held within the framework of the Summits of the
Americas process and will address regional agriculture policies and
challenges in implementing the Plan AGRO. It is in the context of this
meeting that the Summit Implementation Review Group for Agriculture (SIRG-A)
will discuss how each Ministry has been working to implement Summit
commitments. For more information, please visit the
IICA website.
The Preparatory Meeting in the
Framework of the Fifteenth Inter-American Conference of Ministers of
Labor will take place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on July
11-13. During this meeting regional Ministers of Labor will discuss ways
to promote regional dialogue and cooperation activities to foster
integral and sustainable development in the labor context. This
dialogue will define the themes for discussion at the Conference of
Ministers of Labor, which will take place in September.
On July 11-12, 2007 officials of the
Organization of American States (OAS) and the African Union (AU),
representatives of the governments of the OAS and AU member states, as
well as civil society organizations from the Americas and Africa will
gather at OAS headquarters in Washington D.C. to take part in the “Democracy
Bridge: Multilateral Regional Efforts for the Promotion and Defense of
Democracy in Africa and America”. This landmark initiative will
provide a space for discussion on issues of democracy, human rights, and
conflict prevention in order to analyze the challenges for the
consolidation of democracy in both the Americas and in Africa.
Participants will use as points of reference the OAS Inter-American
Democratic Charter and the recently drafted African Charter on
Democracy, Elections and Governance. On July 10, 2007 officials of the
African Union commission and the General Secretariat of the Organization
of American States will sign a Memorandum of Understanding at a public
ceremony. For more information please visit the
OAS Civil Society website.
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