Both will watch the match between the Uruguayan and French rugby teams together before the President of the Republic returns to the country.
President Luis Lacalle Pou is found in France and will meet this afternoon with the local president Emmanuel Macron, in what will be the second bilateral meeting in two months, after the one that occurred within the framework of the summit Celac-European Union.
The president has been in France since Tuesday, with an agenda full of activities that will close with the meeting with his counterpart in Paris, and then travel together towards Lille, border region with Belgium, where they will watch the rugby match together The Teros —the Uruguayan team— and the French team, in the context of the World Cup of this sport.
The meeting between leaders will be in Elysee Palace and will begin at 2:00 p.m. Uruguay. Although since Chancellery They announced that there will be no official statements or images of the meeting. Regarding the agenda of the meeting, there are no great details either, although it is expected that the agreement Mercosur-EU be one of the topics of conversation, as well as Uruguayan meat exports to the European country.
The most promoted event, meanwhile, will be the presence of Macron and Lacalle Pou in the official box of the stadium Pierre-Mauroy, where you will see the match for the second date of the group stage of the Rugby World Cup.
After finishing the match, the Uruguayan president plans to return to the country to participate in the closing of the Expo Prado Saturday morning.
Lacalle Pou promoted Uruguayan meat to businessmen
On Tuesday, upon his arrival in France and as the first activity in an intense diplomatic agenda, the president Luis Lacalle Pou met with more than 130 businessmen from different areas, such as finance, energy, automotive, logistics and food. Precisely this last sector is fundamental in the Uruguayan strategy, which aims to promote national products and, mainly, meat.
Regarding the meeting, the director of Uruguay XXI, Sebastián Risso, He highlighted that there were businessmen from all over the region. “Some with presence in Uruguay; others with presence in Latin America, but seeing the country,” he expressed in dialogue with Telemundo and added that even “there are others who are not on the continent, but come to Uruguay as a possible gateway”.
Source: Ambito
