Today, the "Meeting on the challenges and progress of Sweden's feminist foreign policy and interaction with Argentina's work on gender equality" was held at the Argentine Foreign Ministry and was attended by the Undersecretary for Foreign Policy, Gustavo Zlauvinen, and the Swedish Ambassador to Argentina, Barbro Elm.
The meeting was aimed at addressing gender policies in both countries, discussing Swedish cooperation in the field and presenting Sweden's feminist foreign policy.
The executive director of the National Women's Institute, Fabiana Túnez, the executive director of the Women for Equality Foundation, Monique Altschul, the gender advisor of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Ulrika Holmstrom, and Andreas Perez Fransius of the Swedish Embassy to Argentina attended the meeting as panelists.
The event was attended by the diplomatic corps accredited to our country, Argentine Foreign Service officials, students of the Argentine Foreign Service Institute (ISEN), national government officials, officials of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and members of civil society.
The meeting provided a suitable framework to discuss public policies on gender equality undertaken by the Argentine Republic, Swedish international cooperation policies on gender equality and the challenges and progress of Sweden's feminist policy. Argentina and Sweden also conveyed their shared interests in the field of gender equality and, especially, with regard to the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
Press Release No. 465/18
