{"id":155457,"date":"2025-12-11T13:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selasite.azurewebsites.net\/?p=155457"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:31:51","slug":"brazil-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-sela-and-highlights-its-strategic-role-in-the-productive-integration-of-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/en\/brazil-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-sela-and-highlights-its-strategic-role-in-the-productive-integration-of-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil reaffirms its commitment to SELA and highlights its strategic role in the productive integration of the region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Director of the Regional Integration Department of the <strong>Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Daniela Arruda Benjam\u00edn, <\/strong>highlighted the <strong>key role<\/strong> of the <strong>Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)<\/strong> in the<strong> regional integration process<\/strong> during the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/en\/agenda\/51-latin-american-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">51st Regular Meeting of the Latin American Council.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00abRegional integration is not an option, it is a necessity, and together we must learn to deal with our differences and move forward on issues of common interest. And for us, for Brazil, SELA plays a fundamental role in this process,\u00bb she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sela\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-11-at-5.31.27-PM-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155304\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She highlighted the approval of the new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/en\/publicaciones\/work-programme-51st-regular-meeting-of-the-latin-american-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Work Programme for 2026\u20132029,<\/a> <\/strong>which \u201cclearly demonstrates SELA\u2019s potential to create spaces for multi-stakeholder dialogue and to coordinate initiatives and activities on a variety of topics, with a strategic focus on the economic and social development of the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ambassador also stressed the importance of coordinating with other regional integration bodies to avoid duplication of efforts, \u00absuch as SELA&#8217;s role in supporting the work of CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), which would be a way to advance the productive integration scheme, where SELA could contribute highly relevant technical inputs and give greater visibility to an agenda of importance to all,\u00bb she pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, the representative of <strong>Brazil<\/strong> reaffirmed her<strong> country&#8217;s commitment<\/strong> to <strong>SELA <\/strong>and expressed its willingness to continue deepening cooperation in order to advance the development and integration of Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil has worked closely with<strong> SELA<\/strong> and has been integrated into the organisation&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/en\/publicaciones\/work-programme-51st-regular-meeting-of-the-latin-american-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Work Programme <\/a><\/strong>agenda. At this <a href=\"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/en\/agenda\/51-latin-american-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>51st Regular Meeting of the Latin American Council,<\/strong><\/a> <strong>SELA<\/strong> renewed its commitment to Member States and regional mechanisms to promote greater and better integration through a common regional agenda that contributes to the growth of Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of the Regional Integration Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Daniela Arruda Benjam\u00edn, highlighted the key role of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) in the regional integration process during the 51st Regular Meeting of the Latin American Council. \u00abRegional integration is not an option, it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":155307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[448,450,209],"class_list":["post-155457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-celac-en","tag-consejo-latinoamericano-en","tag-sela"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}