Gerardo Martinez, Foreign Affairs Secretary of the Argentine Federal Confederation of Labour [CGTRA] and Coordinator of the Argentine Economic and Social Consultative Forum, together with the Forum representatives received Marcos Peña Pinto, President of the Economic and Social Council of Spain at Uocra Headquarters.
Representatives who are from [General Confederation of Labour (CGT), Argentine Workers ´Central (CTA), Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), Argentine Chamber of Commerce, Argentine Rural Society, Association of Argentine Professionals, among others] organizations that are part of the Consultative Forum for Argentina, agreed with Peña Pinto in the importance of the interchange and strengthening of joint action  between both organizations with the object of strengthening common strategies to face nowadays world-wide crisis.

In the opening of the meeting, Gerardo Martinez explained the role and emphasized the importance of action of the Economic and Social Consultative Forum expressing  that “the experience of social dialogue and consensus in this scope has generated a space of convergence for the organizations, union institutions and the third sector ". In addition he said that “the social dialogue constitutes one of the tools to build up in periods of crisis and that “the MERCOSUR has not still defined his socio labor dimension, debate has not been settled and we think that we can learn a lot form the Spanish experience ".

Peña Pinto, on the other hand, agreed with these concepts and asserted that “in a so fragile world and taken to pieces as this one, it is necessary to vindicate an institutional patriotism, the organization and the action of the civil society ".

Finally, the representative of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), Jorge Zorreguieta, thanked Peña Pinto for his visit and expressed that “the FCES and the CES share one history of social dialogue, where the value of the consensus and work constitutes the most important component that the organized civil society can offer to a democratic society ".

Marcos Peña Pinto, in addition to being the President of the Economic and Social Council of his  country from 2006, has held  diverse positions in  socialist administrations: between 1993 and 1996 he was General Secretary of  Employment in the Ministry of Labour, Labour Attaché at the Spain Embassy in Rome and General Secretary of health of the Ministry of Health.