The President of the Republic, Mario Abdo Benítez, highlighted this Friday in Montevideo the “enormous potential” of Mercosur and assured that Latin Americans must be closer together every day.
Source: EFE
“A more consolidated Mercosur is coming, a common strategy of the hemisphere is coming to be able to be the world’s great suppliers. We are working in a very harmonious way and building -as never before- a strategy for the great challenges”assured the president during a brief press conference.
In accordance with this, He added that the four countries that make up the bloc have 250 million inhabitants and generate food for 1.5 billion people.while highlighting characteristics such as its ability to generate electricity or its productive land.
“The region has great potential to offer to the whole world,” he said. Abdo Benítez, who traveled to the Uruguayan capital to participate in the reopening of an old headquarters of the Embassy of Paraguay that had been left empty.
The diplomatic headquarters owned by the Paraguayan State, which dates from 1928 and is considered a historical heritage of the Uruguayan capital. Photo: Courtesy.
There, the president also spoke about the recent elections held in Brazil, which will have its second presidential round on October 30, and said that as a democrat he must respect what the Brazilian people choose.
“We have to respect the will of the people, continue working and understand that relations are between nations, not between presidents. LThe vision has to be to build a common itinerary in coincidence and also when there is difference”pointed out Abdo Benítez questioned about the possibility of a shift to the left, since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has the advantage for now.
The president also spoke about the new headquarters of the Embassy and highlighted that the building, located in a central area of the Uruguayan capital, represents a cultural and historical heritage, for which he called it “inadmissible” that the house was closed for 11 years .
Abdo Benítez traveled to the Uruguayan capital to participate in the reopening of an old headquarters of the Embassy of Paraguay. Photo: Courtesy.
Earlier, during a speech he gave during the inauguration accompanied by the President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, he highlighted the friendship between the two countries and the “common history of solidarity” they have.
Both presidents participated in a brief tour that was also attended by the first lady, Silvana López Moreira; the former president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera and the secretary general of the Latin American Integration Association, Sergio Abreu, among other diplomats.
The new diplomatic headquarters has a rear garden and a gala hall that was covered with ñandutí looms, a typical Paraguayan fabric. Photo: Courtesy.
The diplomatic headquarters owned by the Paraguayan State, which dates from 1928 and is considered a historical heritage of the Uruguayan capital, It was recovered and has a rear garden and a gala hall that was covered with ñandutí looms, a typical Paraguayan fabric.
This textile work, promoted by the first lady, included the work of 30 artisans from the town of Itauguá, who designed, wove and made 70 rectangular pieces with white, beige and sand colored threads, later assembled for the lining.
