At the XVI Pacific Alliance Summit, Mexico assumed from Colombia the pro tempore presidency of this regional integration initiative, with the promise of promoting an agenda focused on regional digital market, as well as in the Economic recovery post-pandemic, with special emphasis on the recovery of sectors and the population that have been left behind.
Representing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Secretary of Finance, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, detailed, among other "cross-cutting" issues, the following: gender equity, youth, sustainable plastics management, creative industries, sustainable investment and financial integration.
"We are facing a favorable situation to strengthen our integration scheme and demonstrate the benefits of trade openness," he said at the XVI Summit of Leaders of the Pacific Alliance.
He noted that the pandemic revealed opportunities in terms of digital transition. In this regard, he considered that it is necessary to carry out an analysis of the fintech ecosystem, since new technologies have strategic importance as a true driver of economic growth.
It is worth remembering that the Pacific Alliance is made up of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, and is a mechanism for economic and commercial integration, based on four pillars: free movement of goods, services, capital and people and a cross-cutting axis of cooperation.
In this regard, in addition to the presidents of Colombia, Iván Duque; Chile, Sebastián Piñera, and Peru, Pedro Castillo, the event was also attended by Guillermo Lasso, president of Ecuador, and the Minister of Commerce and Industry of Singapore, Gan Kim Yong, a country that became the first associated state of the organization.
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