In front of the leaders of the block, Fernández questioned that Uruguay signs free trade agreements outside of Mercosur without the consensus of the rest of the countries.
“The solution is for everyone to do what they want and save themselves who can, well, let’s discuss it, but it seems to me that I don’t know how far that solution has to go,” he said.
The solution is not for everyone to do their own; I don’t think it’s the mechanism”, said the Argentine President when exposing in the framework of the Mercosur summit that was taking place this Tuesday morning in the city of Montevideo, and affirmed that “unilateral actions worry us”, in reference to the position of the Uruguayan government, which seeks to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, made up of eleven countries from Asia and America.
«Here I want to put a point, Luis dear, with all due respect, to continue the frank debate that you have proposed. One of the conditions is to comply with the rules, and the Mercosur rules say that these agreements must have another treatment mechanism,” the Argentine president told his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Lacalle Pou, in the framework of his speech at the summit that took place develops in Montevideo.
Likewise, he considered that “today’s world considers things very different from free trade” but rather “in seeing how each economy defends itself against the ravages caused by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.”
