President Luis Lacalle Pou He assured that he hopes to be able to have a “hand in hand” with the elected president of Argentina, Javier Milei, once he takes office on December 10, since it is a formula that “Uruguay “It worked.”
“The invitation has been made, I imagine that he has a lot of work as president-elect,” he said. Lacalle Pou yesterday at the closing of the inauguration of road works in Rocha, when asked about the possibility of meeting with who will be his counterpart in the region starting next month, as reported by Radio Monte Carlo.
As the president explained, the intention is to hold a meeting like the ones he had with the presidents Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the time, and even with the outgoing Argentine president Alberto Fernandez. “Good things come about hand in hand,” he said.
Although Lacalle Pou clarified that “those who carry out the technical relations are the Chancellery”, He insisted that “in hand-to-hand situations you let your guard down, you can talk about other topics, you can understand more easily without having the cameras on. “Then, of course, tell the citizens what we have agreed upon,” she added, and assured that “that formula Uruguay “It worked.”
The works with Brazil
As examples of the achievements that the government has obtained from face-to-face meetings between Lacalle Pou and his peers, the president recalled the agreements reached with Brazil during the visits of Lula da Silva in January of this year, a few days after the leader of the PTS assumed power in the northern country.
“When President Lula came to Montevideo, to Suárez and Reyes, we talked about four or five things, and three of them are works,” said the head of state.
In that sense, he recalled that the first of them was the binationalization of the Rivera Airport, which will be inaugurated on December 11. The second is about the Eastern Waterwayin the Laguna Merín: “Wow, it will be important for a part of Rocha, for Thirty and three, for Long Hill and for some other department,” he noted.
About this important work for northern Uruguay, Lacalle Pou He also announced that a tender will be called to begin work before December 15. “It is a work that is all done in Brazilian territory and that was requested by the Uruguayan government, and there is already investments important people on this side who are looking at that waterway to get out to the ocean more easily,” he considered.
Finally, the third work that the president referred to as an example of the benefits of “hand in hand” between leaders was the bridge over Yaguarón River. “He Mauá bridge It is historic but it can no longer hold the weight, so Brazil is going to take charge of the construction of that bridge, and once that work is finished, we are going to have to renovate the Mauá bridge,” he explained. Lacalle Pou,
Source: Ambito
