Quito - The Meeting of Cultures and Countries seeks to promote rapprochement and strengthen cooperation among Latin American countries, during the third day of this event in Ecuador.

Opened at the Ecuadorian Culture House on March 23, this event brings together the diplomatic representations of more than a dozen nations from the region and Spain in a sort of fair where they show different artistic expressions that characterize them.

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Venezuela, Spain and the host country are the states represented at the meeting.

Today's agenda is devoted to the European territory, with a talk in the afternoon with the issue: ˜The impact of heritage on the tourism sector in Spain and Ecuador'. Argentina will also have its space with the performance of tenor, Angel Amosa.

Audiovisual aids, news, handicrafts and foods are part of the exhibition, opened to the public until March 31.

Activities for Brazil and Cuba occupy the program for tomorrow, Guatemala and Venezuela will have a space on March 30, and Chile will be in charge of the closing day with a keynote speech by cultural attaché, Patricio Rivas, and the screening of the film ˜Violeta'.