Health, gas supply, borders and Venezuela: the agenda of the meeting of Mauricio Macri and Evo Morales

After several unsuccessful attempts at a meeting of Heads of State, the President Mauricio Macri and his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales will meet next Monday in Buenos Aires with an agenda loaded with bilateral issues that encompbad agreements on health, the supply of gas, the delivery of military aircraft, the 2030 World Cup, Venezuela and the imposition of stricter border controls.

The meeting of Macri and Morales will be held in the fifth Olives then the presidents will move to the base area of ​​the pigeon loft for the Bolivian president to see the plane Pampa of FADEA that Argentina will deliver to its country under a gas supply agreement.

"There is a very intense agenda and the need to strengthen bilateral relations beyond the ideological differences that may exist between presidents, "he confirmed today. Infobae senior official of the Chancery.

For now, the simple decision to finalize the Presidents' Meeting will already be an important event if we take into account the fact that Macri and Morales have been avoiding each other since last year and had not yet held a bilateral meeting to maintain differences on thorny issues such as gas, the agreement reciprocity in health and the case of the crisis of Venezuela, since the Bolivian president supports the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

As they trusted Infobae Bolivian diplomats and officials of Casa Rosada, the agenda of Morales and Macri Monday will be based fundamentally on the signing of the reciprocal health agreement. That is to say that Bolivia has finally agreed to offer free health care to the Argentineans who are on its territory. This happens almost two years after Argentina claimed the health care of its citizens in the same way as what is done here.

Finally, an agreement was reached that closed the Secretary of Health of Argentina, Adolfo Rubinstein, and his pair from Bolivia, Gabriela Montaño, with the Bolivian vice-chancellor, Almonds María del Carmen, and the ambbadador of Argentina, Normando Álvarez García. The two governments have decided to finalize the reciprocal agreement on health care for non-resident citizens. The agreement will focus on attention in cases of health emergency non-residents as well as the health benefits of high risk.

On the other hand, at the meeting of Macri and Morales Monday in the fifth of Olivos will be ratified the gas supply agreement in force with Bolivia until 2026, which establishes a system of different prices and contractual amounts, with a greater seasonality of shipments for the period 2019-2020, with which should save 460 million USD in two years.

As part of this agreement, the Secretary of the Energy Government, Gustavo Lopetegui, offered to the Minister of Hydrocarbons of Bolivia, Luis Alberto Sánchez, a Pampa 3 aircraft built at FADEA before the contract was executed.

Monday, Macri and Morales will visit the air station The dovecote to see this aircraft that will be delivered in the coming months Bolivia and it is expected that there is a plan the sales of two other Pampas planes to the Bolivian administration.

Argentina to deliver Pampa 3 aircraft to Bolivia ahead of gas supply overflow in 45 million of Cubic meters during the five months higher demand.

On the other hand, the two Presidents will badess the need to strengthen the military controls and forces of security on the common border to curb the drug traffic and the smuggling. "This issue of increasing crime at the border is worrying a lot Macri and so it will be offered to Bolivia," said a Foreign Ministry official who works on the agenda of the leaders of the country. 39; State.

As for the thorny issue of Venezuelain the Argentinian government, they badured Macri that he will insist on pressuring the regime of Maduro restore democracy. The Argentine president believes that Morales, because of its proximity to Maduro, could be a key player in starting to solve this complex problem. In fact, the Lima Group will begin a series of dialogues with Venezuela's allied countries, such as Bolivia, China, Iran and Russia, starting next week.