Below Secretary Jose W. Fernandez will journey to Mexico Metropolis on September 12 to affix Secretary Blinken as a part of the U.S. delegation to the U.S. – Mexico Excessive-Stage Financial Dialogue (HLED) to advance our shared goals for North American financial prosperity. The HLED discussions will evaluation advances and achievements over the previous yr and assist outline our shared imaginative and prescient to boost regional competitiveness. Below Secretary Fernandez can even have interaction with personal sector stakeholders and civil society from the USA and Mexico on alternatives to deepen financial cooperation and strengthen regional provide chains.
The Below Secretary will journey to Panama Metropolis on September 13 and San Jose on September 14 to debate collaboration and additional strengthen our strategic financial partnership with Alliance for Growth in Democracy (ADD) international locations on provide chains, together with new alternatives for funding in additional resilient and safe applied sciences.
In Panama, Below Secretary Fernandez can even meet with the Ministers of Overseas Affairs, Setting, Finance, and Commerce, with the Nationwide Secretary of Science, Know-how, and Innovation, and individually with the Panama Canal Administrator to debate the power of the bilateral relationship and discover areas for additional collaboration together with provide chain bottlenecks and logistics, power and maritime cooperation, and funding alternatives.
In Costa Rica, the Below Secretary will meet with President Rodrigo Chaves Robles to debate our shared regional goals for selling commerce and funding, supporting the event of 5G telecommunications infrastructure, and defending our oceans via marine governance and transparency with cooperation on the Japanese Tropical Pacific Marine Hall (CMAR).
All through his journey, Below Secretary Fernandez can even meet with leaders in authorities and enterprise to advertise U.S. funding and commerce, supply-chain diversification, ocean conservation, the clear power transition, and digital connectivity for the area, in addition to have interaction with potential companions throughout sectors to additional our multilateral efforts to deal with the consequences of local weather change, meals insecurity and malnutrition, in addition to pandemic threats.