Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico visited the IIN.

On 17th December visited the IIN, Amb. Patricia Espinosa Castellano, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, in the company of Amb. D. Cassio Vitale Luiselli Fernandez, Ambassador of Mexico in Uruguay and Amb. John Biehl del Rio, Representative of the Office of the Organization of American States in Uruguay.
 
The visitor was received by the Director General of the IIN, Mrs. María de los Dolores Aguilar Marmolejo, who together with Dr. Norberto Liwski, Senior Specialist of the IIN, conducted a synthetic presentation of the objectives and actions of the institutional Action Plan for the period 2007-2011.
 
The Foreign Secretary transmitted the high interest of her Government for the development and strengthening of the Institute and the recognition of the historical work on behalf of children and adolescents in the Americas. Within the working agenda, was analyzed the realization of the first Inter-American Meeting on the "Exchange of Experience and Programs on Child Care" to be held in Mexico, in the city of Queretaro, on 24 and 25 April 2007.

It is a subject of mutual interest the situation of migrating children and the need to deepen regional and national efforts with the aim of a greater protection of their rights especially for those children and adolescents unaccompanied outside their country of origin.

Amb. Patricia Espinosa stated her intention to maintain continuity of the process of consultations in the framework of both national and hemispheric actions on common problems.
 
Finally, professionals and the staff of the IIN shared a moment of friendly and cordial exchange in which the Ambassador received a remembrance of her presence at the IIN.