Busan to Host FEALAC in May 2017

Busan City was announced as the host of the eighth Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of FEALAC (Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation) from May 23 to May 26, 2017 at Nurimaru APEC House and other locations around Busan.

FEALAC is the only multilateral inter-governmental consultative mechanism between East Asia and Latin America that launched in 1999 and composes 36 member states – 16 East Asian and 20 Latin American. The Republic of Korea (ROK), chosen as the host country of the FEALAC Cyber Secretariat at the fourth FEALAC Foreign Ministers’ meeting held in Japan in January 2010, has since been tasked with operating it. It has also hosted the FEALAC Cyber Secretariat workshop on an annual basis since 2011 to seek strategies for FEALAC development and ways to step up cooperation between East Asia and Latin America. The ROK has been serving as FEALAC’s regional coordinator for East Asia from 2015 to 2017.

(Source: Dynamic Busan)

Busan City has successfully hosted international conferences with its outstanding conference facilities to play host to events like the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2011 and the 2014 ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit.

After hosting the 2014 ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit, the FEALAC 2017 will be the biggest event the city has hosted, with participation from about 600 government officials, including foreign ministers and related ambassadors from 36 member countries.