“We are grateful for the space for dialogue that the Minister of Economy of Argentina, Sergio Massa, and Daniel Funes de Ríoja gave us, in order to facilitate trade between the two countries,” the industrial entity published on its social networks after the meeting. .
This rapprochement also seeks to consolidate historical commercial relations that in recent months have come into tension due to the opening policies of the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pouin its search to finalize a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China, and the interest of Uruguay to integrate the Trans-Pacific Agreement (TTP), something that generated a conflict with the positions of the other partners of the mercosur.
The crossing between Lacalle Pou and Massa last January
On January 23, Minister Massa commented at a press conference that “Uruguay is one of the younger brothers of Mercosur”, and that both Argentina and Brazil have “the obligation to take care of it”, after being consulted about the intentions of the Uruguayan government to make economic relations between the country and Mercosur more flexible.
The following day, within the framework of the summit of the celacheld in Buenos Aires, Lacalle Pou was consulted for these statements that he described as “seems like Disneyland”, when requesting an extension of his statement, he insisted again: “ disneyland”. Immediately afterwards, the Uruguayan president made clear his position to continue with the negotiations to finalize an FTA with China.
Source: Ambito
