President of Argentina completed 1 year in office; called Mercosur a prison during the summit in Uruguay
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei (La Libertad Avanza, right), said on Tuesday (Dec 10, 2024) that his administration will seek a free trade agreement with the United States. In a televised broadcast, he stated that the country “will stop turning his back on the world and will once again be a protagonist” of global trade.
“Our ultimate objective in Mercosur is to increase the autonomy of the organization’s members in relation to the rest of the world, so that each country can negotiate freely with whoever it wants, as it suits it. Along these lines, our first objective will be to promote a free trade agreement with the United States next year, the agreement that should have been made 19 years ago.”, he declared.
At the 65th Mercosur Summit, held last week in Montevideo (Uruguay), Milei said that the South American bloc “was born with the idea of deepening” commercial ties, but “ended up becoming a prison” in which the members “cannot take advantage of comparative advantages and their export potential”.
Speaking on Tuesday (Dec 10), the Argentine president stated: “Imagine what we would have grown in these almost two decades if we had negotiated with the 1st world power”.
Milei stated that “all this growth” he was “taken” yes Argentina “with the simple signature of a group of bureaucrats“, what “denied“to countries”the benefits” of free trade agreements with other nations.
“Argentina will stop turning its back on the world and will once again become a protagonist in global trade, because there is no prosperity without trade and there is no trade without freedom”, these.
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