França’s statement occurred after the first meeting with Cafiero in the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina and showed the consensus reached between both countries regarding the opening of the Common External Tariff of Mercosur, quoted the official agency Telam.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos França said that he is “very enthusiastic” about reaching an agreement with Argentina to buy gas from the Vaca Muerta field in Neuquén, destined for Brazilian consumers. “For Brazil, Argentina is an absolute priority,” França said in a statement to the press after meeting Cafiero in Brasilia.
The Brazilian Foreign Minister emphasized the possibility that a gas pipeline from Vaca Muerta will sustain future growth in Brazil, a country that is in the worst water crisis in 91 years, with tariff increases due to the drought of its hydroelectric plants and depends, in terms of gas, from the agreement it has with Bolivia.
In addition, in 2022 the government of Jair Bolsonaro will have to renegotiate the energy of the binational Itaipú power plant with Paraguay.
“Argentina has great production of the gas that Brazil needs in the dead cow region. We are working hard to increase the connectivity of the input not only in energy as a raw material for fertilizers,” said the Brazilian Foreign Minister. And, he added: “I am an enthusiast for the integration with Vaca Muerta.”
He described it as “a 4.0 gas agreement” with Argentina when compared to the commitment that Brazil has had with Bolivia for two decades.
President Bolsonaro had said on Thursday that Brazilian agribusiness may suffer in 2022 due to a lack of fertilizers in the global market. The foreign minister said that the consensus reached with Cafiero on Mercosur preserves “the sense of union” but also the “adaptation of the bloc to the world.”
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