During his tour in Asia, Mauricio Macri will not cross Singapore and could go to Qatar.

Mauricio Macri This Friday will begin a tour of Asia with the commercial economic objective of placing Argentine products on the continent. It's a fact that the president will go through the India, Vietnam and United Arab Emirates. Already excluded a visit to Singapore – where he had first to attend and then hardly pbad as a stopover- the Argentine Foreign Ministry is working at this time so that the tour also includes Qatar.

Macri will begin its official activities next Monday with a meeting in New Delhi with Indian Prime Minister Narendra ModiTuesday, he will go to Mumbai, where are installed the main companies of this country.

Then he will go to Vietnam, where, from February 20 to 21, entrepreneurs related to the fields of agro-industrial technology, biotechnology, fishing and leather will meet.

The clear economic and commercial profile of the visit is clear in the days that the Head of State will keep in both cities – 588 kilometers apart – with Argentine and Indian businessmen, with the clear goal of trying to sell domestic products in this part of the Asian continent.

"This is a trip that essentially involves a commercial economic component, as India represents a huge growth potential for Argentine exports"said Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie.

The Foreign Minister badured that the goal "is to increase the presence of Argentine products acquired in these markets". For this reason, he said: will travel with a delegation of 35 Argentine businessmen from different sectors and sectors, which are of interest in each of the Indian and Vietnamese markets.

In these countries, he explained, "there will be a business forum with Indian and Vietnamese businessmen, with the Argentine counterpart, but also meetings of the president with the leading businessmen, especially with India, which has a core of large multinational corporations that we want to excite to be present on the Argentinean market with investments ".

Faurie stressed that "there are already some, like those of Tata Group, Argentina", a conglomerate that brings together the fields of communication and information systems, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer goods and chemicals.

"We want more companies the size of these large multinationals to reach the Argentinean market, including the sector not only of agricultural production or industrial inputs, which is the case, but also the sector of the economy. 39, energy, "he added. with the agency Telam.

In India, where he plans to arrive on Sunday, the head of state will be that day and Monday to New Delhi -the capital, where the government has a seat and has nearly 22 million inhabitants – and on Mumbai, with nearly 19 million inhabitants and the economic heart of this country.

In New Delhi, Macri will have close contact with Narendra Modi, whom he already knows because they had a personal meeting when the foreign president went to the country to attend the G20 summit, chaired by Macri.

Regarding the trip to United Arab EmiratesFaurie said it would be brief, as the president will travel by airliner and that country is the first stop in Vietnam.