President Luis Lacalle Pou lashed out this Tuesday, during his speech at the LXII summit of heads of state of Mercosurthe delays in closing the agreement with the European Union (EU), At the same time, he assured that he will not stop demanding a more flexible and modernization of the bloc.
Lacalle Pou, who predicted his Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva “The best of luck” in the negotiations with the EU, also asked him to “be the generator of optimism in my already abundant pessimism around this agreement.” Brazil today assumes the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur.
“Because? Because 25 years of negotiations in the modern world is not logical, all the things that have changed in this time”, he reflected. “We know what are the things that we have in favor, we know what are the ones that we have against, let’s clear the obstacles to be able to culminate, among other things, because we need to give credibility to the particular actors so that trust is finally built,” he said.
Claims for the FTA with China
“Uruguay is coming to this summit as the saying goes ‘so much goes to the fountain that it breaks,’” said President Luis Lacalle Pou. “We are going to insist, we are going to continue carrying the pitcher because Uruguay’s proposal towards inside Mercosur and towards the outside is not capricious. I know that I have had very little echo, but I have no choice but to continue saying what our people feel which is flexibility, modernization, opening up to the world”, he continued, noting that the governments that preceded his had the same demands.
The president again asked the partners, ArgentinaBrazil and Paraguayan“go to the bar” to negotiate to have better conditions, but he clarified: “The immobility is what worries us and if we cannot do it together, we will do it bilaterally”.
The mention of artificial intelligence
Luis Lacalle Pou used the opportunity of his speech before his peers in Argentina, Alberto Fernandez; from Brazil and Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benitez –who was accompanied by the president-elect santiago pena– to introduce the debate on the role of artificial intelligence in the production of goods.
“I share some analyzes that are made, sometimes pessimistic, but it is true that the world is changing and our region has a unique opportunity. Not only because of the raw materials, but above all because of the intelligence of our people”, proposed the President of the Republic.
“In times when people talk about artificial intelligence, after all, everything comes from human intelligence and the commodities and raw materials increasingly need intellect to improve in this world that demands more and more quality”, he considered.
Source: Ambito
