Lima, August
26, 2004
During the
opening ceremony of the 12th
Meeting of Andean Community Vice-Ministers
and Labor Experts, Andean
Community Secretary General,
Ambassador Allan Wagner Tizón,
proposed a new social agreement
leading to the integration,
development and competitive
international insertion of the
Andean countries.
Ambassador
Wagner pointed out that the next
Andean Conference on Employment,
to be held in Lima in November of
this year, and the Andean Summit
on Development, which will gather
the Subregion’s Presidents in
Cusco, next December, “will
contribute to the delineation of a
new social agreement to strengthen
our integration and overall
development”.
Concerning the
Andean Conference on Employment,
the CAN Secretary General
indicated that, in addition to the
active participation of the Andean
Business and Labor Consultative
Councils, the involvement of the
Ministers of the Economy and
Economic Development is essential
to “secure the necessary
convergence between the active
policies prevailing in the labor
market and the economic policies
which will facilitate the
generation of productive
employment”.
Furthermore,
Ambassador Wagner remarked that
“one of the results of the Andean
Conference on Employment should be
the approval of an Andean Labor
Charter, that would make it
possible to guarantee workers’
rights within a context of
development and competitiveness”.
With respect to
the Andean Summit on Development,
scheduled for December 7 of this
year, when CAN Presidents will get
together, Ambassador Wagner stated
that the event will be “an
opportunity for joint reflection
about our own development model
based on the potential of our
peoples, supported by a
complementary territorial
development strategy, which will
reinforce development and social
cohesion centers, and a
sustainable State capable of
ensuring the continuity of
development policies in a context
of governance capability and
consolidation of democracy”.
The 12th
Meeting of Andean Community Vice-Ministers
and Labor Experts, which was held
at the CAN General
Secretariat’s head office, was
also opened by the Peruvian
Minister of Labor and Employment
Promotion, Javier Neves Mujica,
acting as Chairman of the Andean
Labor Ministers Advisory Board.
Minister Neves
noted that the chief objectives of
the Board he chairs include the
regulation of Andean Instruments
on Social Security, Labor
Migration and Work Safety and
Health, as well as the preparation
of a new instrument relating to
Professional Development and the
arrangements necessary to hold the
Andean Conference on Employment.
