The Chinese ambassador to the country, Huang Yazhong, He maintained that the Asian giant “maintains the same will” to sign the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Uruguay, but that the discrepancies within the Mercosur influence the progress of the negotiations.
Within the framework of a cultural activity in the department of Black river, Ambassador Huang Yazhong referred to one of the most important issues currently in the relationship between China and Uruguay: the signature of bilateral FTA between both countries.
In this regard, he pointed out to Subrayado that “China maintains the same will because our strategy is openness and we plan to sign more free trade agreements with more countries in the world.” However, he recalled that “with Uruguay it’s a very special casebecause being a member of Mercosur there are still discrepancies about this case.”
In that sense, he referred to the opposition of countries such as Brazil and Argentina to what Uruguay sign the free trade agreement outside the regional bloc; whose last episode was the confirmation of the former president Alberto Fernandez that he himself communicated with Xi Jinping to put brakes on the Uruguayan negotiations.
Changes in the region
When asked about the impact that the assumption of Javier Milei in the Argentine presidency and its position regarding Mercosur, Huang Yazhong pointed out that “we are going to see that impact.”
“We have noted that in taking his position, President Milei had expressed to our special envoy the willingness to deepen cooperations, especially financial, with China. But his position on Mercosur, “We’ll see,” he said.
At the time, and after the Uruguayan government’s proposal to have a meeting between the regional bloc and China, raised during the Mercosur summit that took place in River from janeiro At the beginning of December, the outgoing administration of Argentina had welcomed the possibility of that meeting. In that sense, the then Secretary of International Economic Relations of the Chancellery, Cecilia Todesca Boccoacknowledged that “we are willing to talk with all countries, the same as with any country in the European Union (EU)”. At the same time, he anticipated that “there may be good prospects”, although, among the difficulties, he recalled that “the EU is subject to environmental regulations and China to phytosanitary regulations.”
For his part, the Chinese ambassador considered that “the free trade “It’s a trend.”
Source: Ambito
