Chancellor Euclides Acevedo affirmed that one of the commitments that President Abdo Benítez gave him once he reached the chair of the Chancellery was the revision of Annex C.
“Itaipu is our main economic, political, geopolitical and diplomatic asset. Within this vision, the revision of Annex C is a great pretext for the reconsideration and renegotiation of the entire treaty and turn Itaipu into an energy and progress hub that is at the service of the entire region, ”he stated.
The foreign minister declared that from Itaipu they can take out a trinational company that is the production of corpus, definitively end the Itati, Itacorá, Aña Cua and have the greatest amount of energy power, in addition to converting surpluses into green hydrogen.
“The negotiations will be creative, intelligent and public, nothing under the table,” he said.
THE PANDEMIC AND THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR
He recalled his time as Minister of the Interior and said that to the surprise of the pandemic it was necessary to resort to creativity and imagination.
“I had a difficult time from the Minister of the Interior, with the thankless task of locking up people. Epyta nde rógape was the message, the daily phrase, it was not easy, but I believe that this pandemic taught us many things, especially what we do not have to do, “he said.
In his opinion, today they can say that the pandemic despite their mourning and burials allowed for an intelligent resurrection of citizenship.
“That work was not easy for me from the Ministry of the Interior,” he reflected, but having citizen support encouraged him. So it was not just someone who said “Pekepata korapype”, but it was a loving summons to citizens.
“Epyta nde rogape, eka’u nde rogape, things that one perceives in contact with the citizenry,” he revealed.
IN FRONT OF THE CHANCER’S OFFICE
He pointed out that the pandemic altered all the codes and arrived at the Foreign Ministry in the midst of the explosion of the ungrateful and tragic Covid – 19, for which he stopped doing foreign policy and became a field assistant at the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare. The challenge was getting the vaccines.
“So instead of doing traditional foreign policy, we appealed to what is called vaccine diplomacy. Get the largest amount to provide the health portfolio with the instrument it needed, “he said.
The main current challenge is that of economic reactivation, and this goes through the process of production, planning of what is produced and export.
He commented that it is in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to open the markets and that after having been assistant in charge of Health, he now occupies the same position in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and in the Ministry of Environment, due to the conditions Keys for exporting and obtaining a market are the fulfillment of the demands that have to do with climate change, environmental sustainability and ecology.
He guaranteed that they have recovered the diplomatic bank in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) because culture and education are key.
“We are a food-producing country, in my conversation with the president of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), I promised to have a permanent mission there because we must fight not only with speeches, but also with the products ”, he assured.
Acevedo stated that they want to expand the market by having a presence in Africa, in the Nordic countries, and that in his opinion it is a mistake that embassies should be closed due to economic austerity.
“On the contrary, the poorer we are, the more embassies we must have, but for that we need to have trained personnel, which we have and above all, a key knowledge of the place where we are. An ambassador is a spy, because he has to look for information, a commercial agent has to sell and know how to buy, and a promoter of our national identity has to know about our culture ”, he revealed.
MORE VACCINES?
For the Chancellor, Covax was one of our greatest frustrations. They opted for a multilateral organization and they were defrauded. “We recovered this year when we went to stomp in Geneva and they said we are going to give them what you have paid and this is the moment that with what we bought and what we obtained through cooperation, today we have an abundant stock of vaccines. What we need is for these vaccines to be applied, and that implies education, action and punishment for those who do not want to be vaccinated, because although one has the right to do what he wants with his life, it cannot be to the detriment of the other, then If you want to go to a soccer game, do you have your vaccine? To Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, do you have your vaccine? The pandemic and the virus have not gone away, it will return and it will be more aggressive. The only source of defense is the vaccine, ”said the minister.
He went on to say that if there is no healthy citizenship, there will be no economic prosperity. At the moment there are more vaccines than the account and must begin to slow down, and reschedule.
“We buy vaccines that have an expiration date and since they are not used they can be left parked. You have to reprogram what you bought and prepare for 2022 and 2033 ”.
WHO IS EUCLIDES ACEVEDO?
The chancellor defined himself as a militant of ideas, a freedom fighter and a specialist in learning.
“Citizens will have already noticed that I do not meet the exquisite manners of the traditional diplomat, as someone criticized me, rusticity in his language, primitivism in his way of walking, but the problem is not in the gestures and external expressions, but in a clear expression of management, development and progress. The Foreign Ministry must be at the service of the people, it is the international face of a community that once and for all needs its second independence, its egalitarian and communal origin where it must fight for prosperity, love and change, “concluded the minister. inland.
