The meetingtook place on November 17 and 18, 2003, at the Mercosur building.
On November 18, 2023, Mr. Hodara gave a presentation titled "The Status of FTAA Negotiations" as part of the conference "Mercosur's External Negotiations."
Representatives from Argentina’s Torcuato di Tella University, Brazil’s Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Getulio Vargas Foundation, and the Institute of Applied Economic Research also spoke at the conference.