More than a hundred delegations will participate in the G77 and China Summit, which will be held, starting today, in Havana on September 15 and 16.
Dozens of heads of State and Government will attend, as well as leaders of international organizations and organizations, including the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres.
According to the information provided to the press, more than 90 Member States have signed up for the list of speakers for the summit, at the Convention Palace, as a sign of the interest aroused by the event, focused on current development challenges: Role of science, technology and innovation.
Key data from the Group of 77 and China:
• The Group of 77 and China is the largest bloc of developing countries within the United Nations System. It is the most diverse consultation group in the multilateral sphere, with 134 member states that represent two-thirds of the membership of the United Nations Organization and 80% of the world's population.
• This Group emerged on June 15, 1964, after the signing of the “Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Developing Countries”, issued at the end of the first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). , held in Geneva. It was created with the objective of stimulating the economic interests of the founding countries and strengthening the capacity for joint negotiation within the UN.
• The Group of 77 and China currently consists of 134 States, after the entry of South Sudan in March 2015; but it maintains its original name for historical reasons. In the case of China - which joined in 1992 - although it is considered an official member, it participates and collaborates externally.
• Cuba joined the Group in 1971. In January 2023 it assumed its pro tempore presidency for the first time.
• Since the first Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77, held in Algeria from October 10 to 25, 1967, in which the Algiers Charter was adopted, a permanent institutional structure was developed that led to the creation of Chapters of the Group of 77 with liaison offices in Geneva (UNCTAD), Nairobi (UNEP), Paris (UNESCO), Rome (FAO/IFAD), Vienna (UNIDO), and the Group of 24 (G-24) in Washington , D.C. (IMF and World Bank).
• The Presidency, which is the highest political body within the organizational structure of the Group of 77 and China, rotates by region (between Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean) and is held for one year in all Chapters. . The President, who acts as its spokesperson, coordinates the Group's action in each Chapter.
• The Southern Summit is, according to the functional statutes of the mechanism, the supreme decision-making body of the Group of 77 and China, whose first Summit was held in Havana, from April 10 to 14, 2000.
(Cubaminrex-Presidencia)
Embacuba Dinamarca