Place and date of the twentieth regular session of CICTE

Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon to all.

This delegation wishes in particular to thank the Chair of the Permanent Council for having agreed to place the matter before us on today’s order of business, and at the same time we would like to thank the distinguished delegation of Peru, and its Ambassador Boza, for having given up the date of April 23 for the organization of the meeting that will take place on April 23 and 24. The Dominican Republic has engaged with the subjects within the framework of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE), organizing meetings and workshops in our country on cybersecurity, tourism security, port security and border security. In that regard, we will continue to support those initiatives, and new ones, from the Chair.

We are now in discussion with the Executive Secretariat of CICTE on the preparation of the draft agenda, the draft calendar and the concept note, in order to circulate them as soon as possible for the consideration of the member states. That said, Madam Chair, we wish to thank you most cordially for having taken this matter into account and placed it on the agenda for today.

Thank you very much.