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Mexico City, September 18 (RHC)-- The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, announced at a press conference on Saturday the agreements adopted at the initial meeting of the heads of state and government at the Sixth Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

"Despite the differences that exist, which are serious, which are important, the meeting was achieved and several substantive decisions were adopted," Ebrard said.  The diplomat commented that at the end of the meeting, a 44-point declaration remained, which took weeks of negotiation, as the points of view of each member state and their positions were gathered.

The Mexican Foreign Minister also mentioned the special declarations adopted as a regional organization, such as the end of the economic blockade on Cuba or the Falklands issue or the forthcoming Climate Change Summit Cop26 to be held in Glasgow.

"The fund to face the impacts of climate change is instituted" said Ebrard, in relation to the immediate actions implemented.  On this issue he said that developed countries pledged 100 billion dollars that have not been seen in Latin America and the Caribbean.

"We are going with a common position with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to say that it is very unequal access to the institution's resources," stressed the head of Mexican diplomacy.

"It has been very difficult to get the vaccines, it has been unfair, abusive that so many countries do not have access to vaccines," he added.

In this sense, he reported that from CELAC, six lines of action will be promoted that will seek to scale up the production of vaccines in the region, the creation of the regional space agency, among other issues.

"We are happy because Latin America and the Caribbean approved something unanimously," said Marcelo Ebrard when referring to the joint approval of Celac to the report presented by the executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL).

"We are going to work together so that we are not late, so that we have technology and improve our possibilities of well-being," he concluded.