President Luis Lacalle Pou received his pair of Armenia, Vahagn Khachaturyan, with the aim of strengthening the bilateral relationship after having shared the inauguration ceremony of the President of Argentina, Javier Milei.
The meeting also comes several months after the FTA (FTA) with Türkiye, due to the advancement in Parliament of a bill to criminalize denialist speeches about the Armenian genocide.
After being received at the Carrasco International Airport by the honorary consul of Armenia in Uruguay, Alicia Aprahamian, and the chargé d’affaires, Maryam Gevorgyan, Lacalle Pou spoke with Khachaturyan in the Residence of Suárez and Reyes, in the framework of a meeting where the chancellor was also present Omar Paganini and progress was made on the bilateral agenda, 31 years after the establishment of diplomatic relations.
The leaders exchanged positions on the main issues of regional and multilateral interest, while highlighting the recent openings of the embassies of Armenia in Montevideo and of Uruguay in Yerevan.
“They are relevant milestones in the traditional relationship of friendship between both peoples, enriched by the presence in our country of an important community of Armenian origin,” he highlighted. Chancellery it’s a statement.
Finally, both Lacalle Pou like the Armenian leader renewed their commitment to “the promotion of international peace and security and to the path of respect for International Law, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.”
The European president also held a meeting with the vice president Beatriz Argimón, the president of the House of Representatives, Sebastian Andújar, the senator Liliam Kechichian and the deputy Pedro Jisdonian.
Lacalle Pou seeks to achieve a “hand in hand” with Milei
After the meeting with the Armenian leader, with whom he met last Sunday at the inauguration of Milei as president Argentina, now Lacalle Pou seeks to hold a bilateral meeting with the president of the neighboring country, where economic measures have already begun to be taken that affect Uruguay.
On the agenda of that event there will surely be topics such as the flexibility of the Mercosur and trade between both countries, after the devaluation that applied the reference of Freedom Advances in Argentina, that seems to shrink the price gap product of the exchange difference.
Furthermore, another important axis will be the change in the authorization of imports in that country, which was celebrated by the Uruguayan exporters for assuming the elimination of the SIRAs, a system that they described as “discretionary” and that put some placements in check.
Source: Ambito
