The Secretary of the Presidency highlighted the government’s role in the agreement with China and questioned voices from the opposition that indicated that “time was lost.”
The Secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgado, highlighted the role of the government in the trade agreement signed with China and questioned the Frente Amplio by pointing out that “this government did, unlike others that declared intentions.”
In this way, the brand new presidential candidate for the National Party responded to opposition criticism, mainly from senator Daniel Caggiani who assured that the FA “quickly left” the agreement with the Chinese government and accused the current administration of “wasting time,” pointing out that the negotiations had advanced sufficiently in the second Presidency of Tabaré Vázquez.
Slim He stated in a press conference that “they announced commercial agreements with China since 2015” and recalled that “a former president of the Wide Front even announced the signing of a FTA in China that was never signed.”
On the other hand, he highlighted that the president’s management Luis Lacalle Pou “For the first time it did what it had to do together with the Chinese government: a common feasibility study.” The leader specified that this survey ended and now “thanks to that we can continue advancing in a necessary step of free trade association.”
“We want the ties to be as quick as possible, but this government did what had to be done to make things happen, unlike others that declared intentions,” he insisted.
For Álvaro Delgado, it is a “very auspicious” agreement
Besides, Slim described the agreement as “very auspicious in what has to do with the commercial future of Uruguay with China”, which consists of more than 24 agreements on different fronts, with a country that is the main buyer of Uruguayan products, mostly of agricultural and animal origin.
The Secretary of the Presidency thus referred to the recent agreement to market byproducts of the meat, that will allow the sale of tripe, a cut required by the Asian country, as well as another agreement that will facilitate the completion of postgraduate studies through scholarships.
Source: Ambito
