A Coordination Meeting for National Liaison Officers (NLOs) from Latin America and the Caribbean and National ARCAL Coordinators (NCAs) has taken place on 29 May and 2 June 2017. The meeting was organized in the margins of the first International Conference on the IAEA Technical Cooperation Programme: Sixty Years and Beyond – Contributing to Development, from 30 May until 1 June 2017.
Over forty participants from the region attended the meeting and took part in plenary discussions and working group sessions. The event was opened by Mr Luis Carlos Longoria Gandara, Director of the Technical Cooperation Division for Latin America and the Caribbean (TCLAC). High-level speakers at the opening session included Ms Mary Alice Hayward, Deputy Director General of the Department of Management, Mr Juan Carlos Lentijo, Deputy Director General of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, Mr Aldo Malavasi, Deputy Director General of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, Ms Nelly Enwerem-Bromson, Director of the Technical Cooperation (TC) Department’s Division of Programme of Action for Cancer; and Ms Anna Raffo-Caiado, Director of the TC Department’s Division of Programme Support and Coordination. The high-level speakers highlighted their appreciation for the contribution of the NLOs and NCAs within the Technical Cooperation programme for Latin America and the Caribbean and underlined the important support that TCLAC provides to the development of the region through nuclear applications and technology.
