The Argentine ambassador in Brazil, Daniel Scioli, announced that there will be a “great binational agreement” with that country that will give a “great boost” to Argentina, he referred to the meeting of President Alberto Fernández with Buenos Aires mayors in Chapadmalal and affirmed that facing to this year’s elections he will be “where he has to be when the moment of the definitions arrives”.
In a meeting he held with journalists in Mar del Plata, Scioli pointed out that “because of the affection that (Brazilian president) Lula Da Silva feels for our President” they will achieve “a great binational agreement in finance, in energy, in the agro-industry, culture, infrastructure and tourism”.
“The Brazilian president confirmed that on January 23 he will come on an official visit to Argentina, the first country he will visit after assuming his third term,” the official emphasized and assured that “this will give a great boost to an Argentina that is recovering, growing and generating employment with new challenges.”
The meeting took place after 7:00 p.m. in the Torreón del Monje, where Daniel Scioli greeted the journalists from Mar del Plata and spoke about his work as ambassador to Brazil.
He began the meeting by indicating that he participated this afternoon in a lunch with President Alberto Fernández at the Chapadmalal presidential residence, where the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof, national and provincial officials, and the mayors Lucas Ghi (Morón), Gustavo Barrera (Villa Gesell), Juan José Mussi (Berazategui), Mario Secco (Ensenada), Julio César Marini (Benito Juárez) were also present. , Gustavo Cocconi (Tapalqué), Roxana Sotelo (Monte Hermoso), among others.
In this regard, he highlighted the vision that the mayors they gave of the “growth of the economy, public works with national and provincial support, despite having had to endure a pandemic and a war that greatly affected the regional economies and how they worked before the arrival of this government when it took over with a debt to the IMF that greatly conditioned its functions”.
Consulted by the election yearthe former governor of Buenos Aires indicated: “I do what needs to be done with the responsibility that I have and with that passion that I have, for which I will be where I have to be and I will do what I have to do when the time comes for the definitions”.
“Today I can say that I had the mission to rebuild the union with Brazil despite the ideological and political differencesI think it was a good test bench and demonstration of how a crack can be closed by finding common points of interest”, he stressed.
And he added: “With all my experience and level of commitment, I work and help within my reach as it is defend employment, bringing investment to the country and accompanying so that our country continues to grow”.
In this sense, the ambassador pointed out that due to his role “it seems that I am far away but I am more than ever with my feet in Argentina, with a great challenge that was to redirect the relationship with Brazil, which once again was the country’s first commercial partner. We have finished 2022 with a record for exports in the last eight years and the largest bilateral trade in the last nine, opening up commercial opportunities in which the Mar del Plata economy is included”.
“With Brazil we are a food, energy power and where the Automotive industry It has allowed it to grow, projecting a manufacturing of 540,000 cars, many of which are exported to the neighboring country, which will bring us multiple benefits,” he said.
In addition, he announced that tomorrow he will meet “with the fishermen’s chamber and then in the port with the great protagonists of this sector, which is fishing from Mar del Plata, which has entered the Brazilian market.”