18:54 | Puerto Varas, Jun. 29.
President-Elect of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on Thursday will participate in the Third Pacific Alliance Business Summit along with more than 500 business people and leaders, who will address issues such as innovation and business role in the Alliance.
Kuczynski —who arrived in Santiago this afternoon— will also attend the 11th Presidential Summit of the Pacific Alliance held through July 1 in Puerto Varas (Chile).
First, he will head to Frutillar to take part in the Third Pacific Alliance Business Summit with Presidents Ollanta Humala (Peru), Michelle Bachelet (Chile), Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia), and Enrique Peña Nieto (Mexico).
Also attending the event will be President of Costa Rica Guillermo Solis and his Argentinian counterpart Mauricio Macri, as well as more than 500 entrepreneurs from different countries.
Kuczynski and Macri will join the panel of speakers at this event. The forum will address education, vision of economic and financial integration in the Pacific Alliance, promotion and facilitation of trade for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and innovation and business role when leading the Pacific Alliance, among other issues.
The 77-year-old leader of Peruanos por el Kambio will also attend a lunch with heads of state of bloc's member and observer states.
He will address Chilean and international media before speaking about the Business Summit Future Vision in a presidential panel of the summit.
In the evening, PPK —as he is popularly known in Peru— will hold an audience with CEO of the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) Enrique Garcia to discuss international technical assistance and cooperation for Peru. The gathering will be held at Cumbres Hotel in Puerto Varas.
Former World Bank economist will meet President Michelle Bachelet on July 1 at 9 a.m. at Patagonico Hotel.
Later, at 9:45 a.m., he will join President Humala in the opening ceremony of the Presidential Summit. He will be present in the closing ceremony, too.
Pacific Alliance
Launched in 2011, the Pacific Alliance is a regional integration mechanism reuniting Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. It seeks to facilitate the free movement of goods, services, capital and people among member countries.
Full members host a population of 216 million people and represent 38% of Latin American and Caribbean GDP.
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Published: 6/29/2016