On May 31, the Inter-American Defense Board held the International Seminar “Migration Flows: Lessons Learned, Experiences and Challenges in the Hemisphere” at Casa do Soldado, in Washington (USA), in person and virtually . The main objective of the event was to share, in a wide and varied forum, visions, experiences and challenges around the topic, contributing to decision-making on the participation of the Armed Forces in support of migratory flow control activities.
At the opening of the seminar, Army General David Guillermo Ojeda Parra, General Commander of the Peruvian Army, highlighted the importance of the topic and the current situation of the migration problem worldwide and on the American continent, a topic that raises a wide range of issues. challenges to the countries of the region. Representing the Republic of Paraguay, the country's National Director of Migration, María de los Ángeles Arriola Ramírez, presented a panel on the experience of the South American nation in the matter, highlighting the main difficulties faced in the process of receiving and hosting migrants.
The closing remarks of the seminar were given by Brigadier General Porfirio Fuentes Vélez, General Director of the Secretariat of the Inter-American Defense Board, who thanked the Center for Strategic Studies of the Peruvian Army (CEEEP) for the joint organization of the event and highlighted the challenges faced by the continent's Armed Forces in situations where they are necessary to support the control of migratory flows.
With a total of 3,371 participants, the Seminar was attended by members from 40 countries and autonomous regions of the five continents: Afghanistan, Albania, Germany, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominica , Egypt, El Salvador, Ecuador, Spain, United States, France, Grenada, Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Honduras, Aland Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Republic Dominican, American Samoa, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.
