Foreign Minister Janaina Tewaney Mencomo and the executive director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Anna Stewart Ibarra, signed an agreement in which the Government of Panama authorizes the establishment and operation of the Executive Directorate of the IAI in Panama.

Therefore, through this agreement, the Government of the Republic of Panama will grant the Inter-American Institute for the Research of Global Change, its assets and assets, as well as its officials, the privileges and immunities established in Cabinet Decree 280 of August 13, 1970.

This Decree “establishes the National Regime for the granting of privileges and immunities to diplomatic missions and foreign consular offices and members of them, to representatives of international organizations and to special missions to them or to foreign governments and members of them.”

The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (for Global Change Research or IAI), is a regional intergovernmental institution that “promotes interdisciplinary scientific research and capacity development to inform decision-making on the continent and beyond.”

The event was attended by the national secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation, Eduardo Ortega-Barría; the director of Legal Affairs, Otto Escartín; the director of Cooperation, Margelia Palacios; the director of Organizations, Siurania Mirones; the head of the Treaty Department, Elías Vargas, among others.

The signing was made in the Francisco Arias Paredes Hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.