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she also met representatives of the Ministry of Social Welfare. During her visit the Special
Rapporteur had an opportunity to meet representatives of the international community,
United Nations agencies, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and some
international non-governmental organizations, as well as the consuls of a number of countries.
5.
During the first part of her visit, from 5 to 9 November, the Special Rapporteur held
meetings with officials and agencies in Quito. On 5 November, following a short
coordination meeting in the UNDP offices in Quito, she held a first meeting with
Ambassador Luis Gallegos, Under-Secretary for Political Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Ambassador Paulina García Donoso de Larrea, Under-Secretary for International
Agencies, Ambassador Francisco Proaño, Director-General for Human Rights in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Fernando Córdoba, Adviser on Migration Issues in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Minister Alfonso Morales, on behalf of Ambassador Carrión,
Director-General for Ecuadorians Abroad.
6.
Also on 5 November the Special Rapporteur held a meeting with the Sectoral
Sub-Commission on the Operational Plan relating to the Human Rights of Migrants. Participants
were: Col. José Vicente Venalcazar, Director-General of Migration; Col. Mauro López, Liaison
Official of the National Police and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Wilson Mayorga, of the
National Directorate of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior and Police; Tania Cedeño,
of the Regional Foundation for Advisory Services in Human Rights and the Regional Institute
for Advisory Services in Human Rights (INREDH); Susmara Solis, Coordinator of the National
Council for Women (CONAMU); Daniela Balsera, of the Pro-refugees Committee of the
Department of Human Mobility of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference; Pepe Torres and
Edmundo Terán, of the World Association of Ecuadorians Living Abroad (ERE); José Egas of
the Committee for Aid to Persons Displaced by Violence; José Sieber, Protection Officer in the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); and Rosa de García,
Director of the IOM programme in Ecuador.
7.
During a lunch organized by the Foreign Ministry, the Special Rapporteur had an
opportunity to talk to Hugo Moreno, Chair of the International Affairs and National Defence
Commission of the Congress; Bolivar Sánchez, President of the Congress’s Commission on
Human Rights; and Minister Galo Larrea, Director-General for Consular Affairs. Also present
were Ilona Szemzo of UNDP and Rosa de García of IOM. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the
Special Rapporteur held a meeting with the units responsible for migrants’ affairs. At the end of
her first day in Quito, in IOM, she met Augusto Mariategui, Director-General of the IOM
regional office for the Andean Community, and IOM officials assigned to Ecuador.
8.
On 6 November a meeting was held between the Special Rapporteur and civil-society
organizations, including Ecuadorian migrants’ organizations. The organizations represented
included: the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference, the Standing Assembly of Human Rights, the
Children’s Forum, Cooperazione Internazionale, Rumiñahui, the Regional Foundation for
Advisory Services in Human Rights (INREDH), the Segundo Montes Mozo Centre, the
Pueblo Indio Foundation and the Ecumenical Commission for Human Rights. She also held a
brief meeting with Dr. Heinz Moller, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, with whom she conducted