Jose Santos, Executive Director of the ICPO attended the Regional Workshop for the South Pacific held in Guayaquil, Ecuador (17-18 December 2018), organized under the auspices of the United Nations, in coordination with the secretariat of the Regular Process, represented by the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations and with the assistance of members of the Group of Experts and Pool of Experts.

The Workshop was held in accordance with the programme of work for the period 2017-2020 for the second cycle of the Regular Process and is intended to support the development of the second world ocean assessment by enabling the collection of regional-level data and enabling relevant members of writing teams to meet.