He mayor of Salto, Andrés Lima, He admitted that he negotiates for the airport that would be inaugurated in that department in December of this year be declared binational with the Argentine city of Concordia, taking the experience of what happened in Rivera.
In this way, the future airport “would have the advantage” that airlines arriving at any airport in Between rivers, in Argentina, they could do it at Leap, stressed Lime in dialogue with Telemundo.
The mayor admitted that negotiations have already begun. “We asked Diego Arrosa, representative of the America Corporation; and to the representatives of Aeropuertos del Uruguay, if in addition to being international we could jointly manage the binationality of the airport,” admitted Lima.
Regarding the progress of the work, he anticipated that it ends in December and explained: “We have agreed with Uruguayan airports than own Salto Intendancy should carry out some interventions, especially in the southern access, from the city to the actual airport”.
The example of the Rivera airport
To advance the proposal Leap, not only was the momentum taken by the international airport of Carmelo taken into account, but Lime took as an example the Rivera Airport, where he Ministry of Foreign Relations (MRREE), in conjunction with local and national authorities Brazil, announced on August 14 the declaration of binationality.
He Defense Minister Javier Garcia closely followed the process and described it as “a historical fact, long awaited by the Uruguay, by Brazil, for the region and for Rivera”. He even considered that the new status will represent “development, connectivity, decentralization and empowerment of such an important region of the Uruguay as is the north”.
In this sense, Garcia highlighted at that time that “it is not the only experience in the world” of this type and compared: “In Europe there are experiences of binational airports, Now we’re going to have one of our own.”
Source: Ambito
