The president will travel this Sunday night to New York to receive an award from the Americas Society organization.
President Luis Lacalle Pou will travel this Sunday night to USAsince it will be awarded by the educational organization Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA) in the city NY. With this trip to the North American country, it was confirmed that the head of state will not be present today in the Argentine city of La Plata to witness the final of the Sub 20 world between Uruguay and Italy.
The president will receive from the international forum the Gold Insigniawhich is awarded to heads of state in the Western Hemisphere who were democratically elected by the people, and whose leadership has a profound impact on their countries.
Lacalle Pou will remain in US territory until next Thursday, June 15after that, last Tuesday, the Senate approve the trip, as established in article 170 of the Constitution, for trips abroad of more than 48 hours by a President of the Republic.
In previous years, other leaders received the award from AS/COA, such as the former president of Peru, ollanta humala, in 2014; the former president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, in 2019; and the former president of Colombia, ivan dukein 2021.
Lacalle Pou held an informal meeting with United States senators in April
Last April, US Senators from the Democratic Party, Bob Menendezand Tim Kaineand the senator of Republican Party, bill hagertyin addition to the Democratic representative tony cardenasheld an informal meeting at the Presidential Estate of Anchorena (Cologne) with Lacalle Pou.
In said meeting, they discussed “the state of bilateral relations and the economy”, as well as the possibility of concluding a trade pact between the two countries in the style of the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).
Through a document, the United States delegation had advanced the objective of the visit in which, in addition to discussing relations between the two countries, they hoped that it would be “part of the agenda, to evaluate the state of democratic values in the region and highlight the role of Uruguay as an example of stability and democracy in the hemisphere”.
Source: Ambito
