President Gabriel Boric confirmed this Monday that his first official trip as president will be made to Argentina on a date yet to be decided and assured that his intention is to visit rural regions of this country, in addition to Buenos Aires.
“We want it to be not only symbolic, but to translate into concrete collaborations,” Boric said at a press conference with foreign correspondents at La Moneda.
The president assured: “we want to make this not only a meeting that is related to money in the sense of commercial exchange, but also to culture, which is something we share with Argentina and where we have a lot to learn from each other.”
Argentina is one of Chile’s main trading partners, a link that is expressed in multiple areas of exchange and public and private collaboration. Among the main products imported by the country from the trans-Andean neighbor are mineral fuels, mineral oils, cereals and meat products, while in exports stand out industrial, mining, agricultural and fishing products.
On the other hand, Chile and Argentina have recently been involved in disagreements regarding the projection of the continental shelf to the south, accentuated by the publication at the end of 2021 of an update of the Chilean maritime borders in southern waters, adding 200 miles that Argentina claimed belong to it.
At the same press conference, Boric outlined the lines of his foreign policy for the next four years, underlining the need for “Latin America to once again have a voice in the world.”
“We are going to humbly bet in that direction. We must stop creating organizations based on the ideological affinities of the leaders of the day, in that sense, Prosur, Unasur and a series of acronyms that are grouped according to affinities, I think they have shown that they do not serve to unite us or to advance in integration,” he added.
