The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Omar Paganini, commented on the relationship of Uruguay with Venezuela – within the framework of a new ambassador assignment in that country – as well as the link with Argentina, of which he was quite optimistic regarding trade with the neighboring country.
A week ago the government appointed Silvana Montes de Oca as the new ambassador of Uruguay in Venezuela, who is the brand new successor of Eber Da Rosa, who presented his “indeclinable” resignation amid questions from the Venezuelan government to the Uruguayan administration.
Paganini assured that Uruguay and Venezuela They have a relationship for many years and that not having diplomatic relations with that country “would be very risky. In that sense, he stressed that the objective of the embassy in the Caribbean country will be to monitor during the elections that will take place there.
“Venezuela is in a process that seemed to be one of democratic opening, based on the Barbados agreements, but it is being greatly distorted to the extent that the main opposition leader has been disqualified, that a very important human rights activist, Rocío San Miguel, was detained and the United Nations experts were expelled,” the minister explained in an interview with Telemundo.
In that sense, Paganini estimated that the regime is not willing to make a genuine opening to democracy, something that Uruguay I saw it as a sign of hope. “We want to keep our relationship close because we believe that there may still be some changes. In addition, we want the Uruguay have a stable relationship with a country with which they still have many things in common and which is also part of the Latin American community,” said the leader of Chancellery.
A relationship full of tensions
After Da Rosa’s resignation, the government anticipated that it would maintain a presence in that country because “the relationship is with the people, not with the government,” according to Da Rosa’s own admission. Lacalle Pou.
From the Executive Branch they questioned the political situation in the Caribbean country and criticized the electoral disqualification of the opponent María Corina Machado, as well as the arbitrary detention of the activist Rocío San Miguel, which generated responses.
First she was the vice president Delcy Rodríguez, who accused him of being a “lackey” USA to Lacalle Pou, while Ripe pointed out: “On the one hand, he acts crazy with the massacres of Netanyahu in Palestine and on the other hand he intends to pontificate and pay and give back in the internal politics of Venezuela. “How fresh!”
Hopes in the link with Argentina
The chancellor also gave his opinion on the relationship that is maintained with Argentina within the framework of a new government in the neighboring country. Paganini highlighted that the agreement for Port of Montevideoin which the Argentine government was allowed to increase dredging to 14 meters, “is part of a common vision that we have about the waterway.”
On the other hand, he assured that prices with Argentina managed to level out and that the “flow of foreign currency towards Argentina has slowed down, allowing coastal commerce to resume activity and Argentine tourism in Uruguay becomes more reasonable.”
Meanwhile, he added that the changes in imports by Argentina were good news for the country. “The system that existed for one-by-one approval of each of the exports was eliminated, and today the private parties agree and export is done,” he celebrated and added that now “the rules of the game are being met.”
Source: Ambito
