CELAC foreign ministers are meeting in the capital of Ecuador Tuesday to discuss the regional organization's political plan, which aims to bring tangible benefits to the people of the region.

Specifically the ministers from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States will be discussing the 2020 CELAC Development Plan, a document that Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said has undergone an exhaustive consultative process.

CELAC was created in 2011 in order to provide a space for dialogue among the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, but Patiño argued that it must go further.

"We have seen that the proposal of development for the region is a way for us to connect with our people, space for political dialogue is important, but falls short, our citizens are interested in concrete benefits that the region will receive and there is much that can be achieved with this proposal,” Patiño told teleSUR.

Telesur