The Foreign Ministry highlighted the talks with “the world’s second largest economy and one of its main trading partners.”
Uruguay will host a new meeting this Monday between members of the Mercosur and China, something that did not happen six years ago, with the aim of strengthening the trade relationship between the regional bloc and the Asian giant.
He Ministry of Foreign Affairs He assured that the VII Meeting of the Mercosur-China Dialogue Mechanism is “one of the main priorities” that the government defined within the framework of the Uruguayan Pro Tempore Presidency of the regional bloc.
The Vice Chancellor Nicolas Albertoni will lead the country’s delegation, while the Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs will also participate, Hua Chunying, In addition to authorities of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
In a statement, Chancellery He stressed that “the holding of a new instance of this Dialogue was precisely one of the main priorities defined by Uruguay for his period as Pro Tempore Presidency of Mercosur, which began on July 8,” recalling that the previous meeting had been in October 2018.
The Chancellor Omar Paganini He has confirmed on several occasions that this is an “instance of dialogue with the second largest economy in the world and one of the main commercial partners in the region”, which is why it is necessary to seek “the identification of instruments” that improve commercial integration with China.
Lacalle Pou and a meeting with representatives of China
This meeting adds to the President’s gesture Luis Lacalle Pou, who received a few days ago a delegation headed by the Minister of the International Department of Communist Party of China (CCP), Liu Jianchao, with the intention of continuing to advance in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between both countries.
It is worth noting that the Asian giant is the main trading partner, with more than 20% of the exports total and having reached a record of 4.457 billion dollars in 2022.
In this context, Jianchao, the highest authority of the CCP in matters of foreign relations, highlighted the excellent state of the bilateral relationship, as well as the formation of the Comprehensive Strategic Alliance between the two countries in November last year.
Source: Ambito
