MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

IDB announces annual assembly in Miami for next April

Colombia's Luis Alberto Moreno, IBD President

The Inter-American Development Bank will host an event in Miami September 6 for government officials, business leaders and journalists to officially launch its 2008 Annual Meeting that will take place in the city in April.

IDB President, Luis Alberto Moreno, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Affairs, Clay Lowery, and the President of the Miami Host Committee, Jorge L. Arrizurieta, will open the event at which the Mayor of the City of Miami, Manuel Díaz, the IDB Executive Director for the United States, Hector Morales, and state and local officials, will attend. Commissioner Natacha Seijas, Chair of the International Trade Consortium, and Chairman Bruno Barreiro will represent the Miami Dade County and Commissioner Jerry Libin will represent the City of Miami Beach. World renowned pop artist Romero Britto, who will serve as artistic director for the IDB Annual Meeting, will unveil his theme and the logo he designed for the meetings. The Annual Meeting of the IDB Board of Governors is the main forum for discussion of political, economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean and attracts thousands of participants from the IDB's 47 member countries. IDB Annual Meetings are held in a different city in a member country every year. The April 4-6, 2008 meeting will be the second in Miami.