Alberto Fernández’s government drew up a roadmap to move forward with regional trade and boost production chains. Strategy for dealing with Uruguay and its unilateral free trade plans.
When Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernández, arrives in Montevideo (Uruguay) this Tuesday to join the Mercosur leaders’ summit, he will carry under his arm a folder with a roadmap of what Argentina will prepare to execute in six next months pro interim presidency of the bloc: namely the need to leave behind the unfolding crisis with Uruguay, to promote the bloc’s international trade and to establish the development of a program aimed at prioritizing a “competitive integration of networks producers” in regional chains.
The strategy of advancing a coordinated diplomatic action by Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay these days to call Uruguay with eventual sanctions for the advancement of unilateral trade negotiations was not accidental.
Those close to Alberto Fernández confirmed to El Cronista that the government’s idea was to advance this plan to leave behind obstacles and avoid a bigger conflict at the summit of the bloc’s presidents tomorrow.
It is likely that at the Montevideo summit, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou will publicly complain about Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay’s threat to sanction him for advancing unilateral deals with China and other countries. But Alberto Fernández will try to prevent this from being the central axis of the summit.
With information from Dfsud
