The United Nations was created to facilitate cooperation, to solve conflicts among the nations members, to serve as a mediator and to develop policies that help nations to reach social, political and economic equilibrium. In order to achieve its main goals, the United Nations very often opens discussion boards in many of its governance bodies. The main objective of these discussion boards and forums is to allow the audience to know what is going on in the UN system to achieve its main mission. Also, it opens the floor to suggestions and inputs that other important bodies can add or refute to a same subject. At the end, it helps the organizations within the UN system to receive feedback from its counterparts in other agencies, to integrate the policies and to create procedures that make sense for all members.
One of the most interesting debates I assisted to was “Trade rules for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean”. This session was organized by CEPAL (ECLAC in English), which is the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. During this session, three speakers from CEPAL Santiago de Chile, came to Geneva to explain how the international trade rules and provisions regarding investment and intellectual property rights impact the Latin American and Caribbean export pattern.
The WTO as well as CEPAL are concern about sustainable development and both organizations recognize the importance of addressing these issues in public forums in order to create debate on the topic and generate in the future policies that goes along with global trends. Both bodies recognize global environmental concerns, innovation, competitive pattern of growth and institutional governance are relevant for a progressive movement toward sustainable development objectives in the Latin American and the Caribbean countries.
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