The heads of Itaipu, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ANDE appear today before the Permanent Commission of Congress, to report on the 2023 rate -which has not yet been agreed- and on the Paraguayan position regarding Annex C.
At 10:30 a.m., the first session of the Permanent Commission of Congress will begin, which as the first item on the agenda includes pending issues at Itaipu Binacional.
The The first interlocutor is the Minister of Foreign Relations, Julio Arriola, who will present on the Renegotiation of Annex C of the Itaipu Treaty, according to the call.
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The second, the Paraguayan director of Itaipu, Manuel María Cáceres, who will explain about the 2023 tariff and our country’s position in this regard, taking into account that the Brazilian position is the reduction by 38.9%.
What The third speaker is the president of ANDE, Félix Sosa, who will talk about the institutional vision of the state company, regarding this year’s rate.
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this session should have been carried out before the end of the year, at the request of the liberal senator Eusebio Ramón Ayala, however, the foreign minister requested the postponement to January, arguing that he would try to talk with the Brazilian authorities during the inauguration of Lula Da Silva on January 1, something that was not possible as already expected.
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Precisely from the first day of 2023, Brazil cHe began to pay the rate he chose, that of USD 12.67, applying the 38.9% decrease, without Paraguay’s consensus, but in advance of the position that he will defend during the negotiation.
