The president meets with the president of the neighboring country, with an open agenda and prior to the event for the attack on the AMIA.
President Luis Lacalle Pou met with his partner Argentina, Javier Milei, in a meeting with an open agenda that took place in the Pink House, in the run-up to the joint event that both leaders will share for a new anniversary of the attack on the AMIA.
The first bilateral meeting between the leaders lasted about an hour, while they will later share an event with the president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, where they will reinforce the conservative axis of the region.
After the meeting, the three leaders will participate in a hotel in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Madero Port of an international conference on security and anti-terrorism, organized by the World Jewish Congress and the Latin American Jewish Congress.
Javier Milei, Luis Lacalle Pou, logo Ambito.jfif
A meeting on good terms after the friction over Mercosur
According to reports, the meeting would have taken place on good terms, beyond the recent friction after Milei did not attend the summit of Mercosur and Lacalle Pou demanded his presence, although without naming him explicitly.
In the run-up to the meeting, the presidential spokesman of Argentina He referred to the president’s previous statement and said that “it is the opinion of the Uruguayan President and we respect it, but there was no resentment,” he added, adding that it was “not a criticism, it was a valid description.”
A relationship with winks
Anyway, Lacalle Pou It has hints in the bilateral relationship with Argentina, since shortly after assuming the Presidency, Milei authorized dredging to 14 meters of the Port of Montevideo, something that was negotiated for a decade.
Another positive point was the recent agreement of Open skies, while in the future the declaration of intentions of the Argentine president appears, who said that the Mercosur must advance free trade agreements, in line with the Uruguayan position.
Source: Ambito
