E/CN.4/2002/94/Add.1 page 7 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