President Luis Lacalle Pou met with the local president Emmanuel Macron, in the second bilateral meeting in two months, after the one that occurred within the framework of the summit Celac-European Union, while later they both watched together the meeting between Uruguay and France for the Rugby World Cup.
The president has been in the European country since Tuesday, with an agenda full of activities that closed with the meeting with his counterpart in Paris and subsequent activity in Lille, border region with Belgium, where they watched the rugby match together The Teros —the Uruguayan team— and the French team, which finished 27-12 in favor of the Europeans.
The meeting between leaders took place in the Elysee Palace. From Chancellery They announced that there were going to be no official statements or images of the meeting and it emerged that the agreement Mercosur-EU It could be one of the topics of conversation, as well as Uruguayan meat exports to the European country.
The most promoted event was the presence of Macron and Lacalle Pou in the official box of the stadium Pierre-Mauroy, where they saw the match for the second date of the group stage of the Rugby World Cup. “Friends but… May the best win!” wrote the Frenchman on his X account (formerly Twitter).
“I am delighted to be here with you, dear President, on the occasion of this France-Uruguay match of the Rugby World Cup that we are proud to host in Lille,” added Macron, in a message to the Uruguayan president, who 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
