📋 Tender Overview
Colombia supported the creation of the Pacific Alliance Youth Technical Group, which will focus on improving employment and education opportunities for young people in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Colombia highlighted the integrationist vocation of the Pacific Alliance and, in that sense, supported the accession process of Costa Rica as a future full member of the Mechanism. Colombia, as the next pro tempore Presidency for 2025, played an active role in the meeting of the High Level Group of the Pacific Alliance, which is made up of the Vice Ministers of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, with the aim of promoting regional integration and consolidating initiatives that benefit the population of the Pacific Alliance.
During the meeting, the delegation headed by the Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs, Kandya Obezo Casseres, reviewed the status of the accession process of Costa Rica as a potential new member of the Mechanism, as well as the future of the extra-regional projection of the Alliance, through the involvement of Associate States belonging to other regions of the world. Likewise, the representatives of the four member countries approved the achievements of 2024 and the mandates for 2025 of the technical groups of the mechanism, on issues such as Environment, Gender, Culture, Education, Innovation and Social Inclusion, which will be recorded in the <<Santiago Minutes>> that will be signed by the Council of Ministers of the AP.
Two of the important milestones of the meeting were the approval of the Decision that creates the Technical Group of Youth, which will allow to work decisively for a better education and for the employability of young people in the region; Likewise, the review and approval of the Cooperation Fund projects, which seek to directly benefit the population of the AP, with a cross-cutting focus on gender and environmental sustainability. Finally, the authorities of the Pacific Alliance reaffirmed their commitment to promote concrete actions with multilateral banks, in order to consolidate products that directly impact the quality of life and personal development of the citizens of the Pacific Alliance.
