The president clarified that if they accepted from Uruguay the offer of help from Argentina for the water crisis.
President Luis Lacalle Pou He referred this Monday to the statements of his pair of Argentina, Alberto Fernandezwho said that “in Montevideo they open the faucet and no water comes out”, assuring that these statements “could be for two reasons: bad intention, that I rule it out, or ignorance” and confirmed that he communicated with the Argentine ambassador in Uruguay to clarify the situation.
On Sunday afternoon, Alberto Fernández, at a press conference, during the inauguration of the “Néstor Kirchner” gas pipeline, talked about the climate change that is the responsibility of all parts of the world, but, especially, of Latin America and used as an example what happened in Uruguay. “The time ahead of us faces many challenges and gives us opportunities. The great challenge is climate change, it has already been seen. We live it in the drought, Uruguay lives it. In Montevideo they open the taps and the water doesn’t come out,” said the president.
Faced with this, the reactions of the ruling party were not long in coming and even the president himself declared that Fernández’s statements “could be for two reasons”, bad intentionalthough he remarked that he ruled it out or out of ignorance and remarked that if his Argentine counterpart wants to obtain the correct information You just have to look on the internet.
On the other hand, he remarked that he had a conversation with the Argentine ambassador In uruguay, Alberto Iribarne, with whom he has a very good relationship, and clarified that the foreign minister spoke with the Argentine president to explain the real situation facing the country.
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Source: Ambito
