The Diplomat
Since yesterday, the Supreme Court has been hosting, at the headquarters of the General Council of the Judiciary, a series of meetings to prepare for the XXII edition of the Ibero-American Judicial Summit (CJI), to be held next May in the Dominican Republic.
During the opening ceremony, the Ibero-American Secretary General, Andrés Allamand, recalled the programmatic and instrumental value of the Judicial Summit at a time when the usefulness of multilateralism, dialogue and solidarity is questioned by certain sectors.
“Through activities such as this one, the Ibero-American Community positions itself in the face of such questioning by defending the projection we achieve when we agree on common positions, the wealth that benefits us all when we exchange experiences, and the strength that characterizes us when we choose to cooperate rather than divide.”
In this sense, Allamand gave as an example the work carried out within the framework of IberRed (the Ibero-American Network for International Legal Cooperation), which brings together the central authorities and points of contact in the ministries of justice, public prosecutors’ offices, public ministries and judicial powers of the 22 countries that make up the Ibero-American Community.
The Ibero-American Secretary General announced that, with a view to the next Summit of Heads of State and Government, to be held in Madrid in 2026, the idea is to create an Ibero-American Justice Space to highlight the common legal culture of the 22 Ibero-American countries and the work being carried out by the different actors in the sector.
Allamand was joined by the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay and head of the Permanent Secretariat of the CJI, Elena Martínez Rosso; the President of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Dominican Republic, Pilar Jiménez Ortiz; and the President of the Supreme Court and the governing body of judges, Isabel Perelló.
