Ambassador Latheef participated at Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA+40), held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 20-22 March 2019 as a member of the Maldivian delegation that was headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs H. E. Abdulla Shahid and included Ambassador Ali Naseer Mohamed, Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The conference convened to review the progress of implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action adopted in 1979 was attended by countries at Head of State/Ministerial level. Minister Abdulla Shahid had held bilateral meetings with leaders of delegations from Nepal, Thailand, South Africa, Vietnam, Romania, Estonia, Serbia and Argentina.