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Chile's President, Sebastián Piñera, received today, at the La Moneda Palace in Santiago, the elected President, Mario Abdo Benitez, with whom he discussed the state of bilateral and regional relations.
Source: EFE
Abdo Benitez arrived in Chile accompanied by elected Vice President Hugo Velazquez, and the future Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Alberto Castiglioni
The three were received in his office by Piñera, who was accompanied. Chancellor of the South Country, Roberto Ampuero.
at the closed meeting discussed various issues in the context of trade and energy bilateral cooperation between Chile and Paraguay, according to sources presidency.
in addition to bilaterally, the Chilean president and the elected president, also addressed the political situation in the regional framework.
In this context, Chile joins the Pacific Alliance with Mexico, Peru and Colombia; while Paraguay is a member of the Mercosur bloc which also includes Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, which currently occupies the rotating presidency.
The two regional blocks have shown in the past its intention to establish closer relations in the plan. Political and Commercial
Paraguay and Chile played last April in Asuncion to advance Mercosur's relationship with the Pacific Alliance through a program with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), according to the Minister Foreign Minister Paraguay said Eladio Loizaga after a meeting with Ampuero.
"we have agreed to a firm commitment to move around the relationship between Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance. to that end, we are working and working with the Inter-American Development Bank on a program to advance the roadmap we have, "said Loizaga at the time.
Abdo Benítez and the other members of the Raguaya delegation also personally met with Ampuero, the Foreign Minister, during a meal at a downtown club in the Chilean capital.
This visit of Abdo Benítez to meet Piñera is the fifth trip of the elected president to the head of the country. the ballot boxes on April 22.
Before arriving in Chile, the president-elect met Monday with President of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez, and the country's foreign minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa.
Previously, he had also been to Russia, where he met with President Vladimir Putin; in Brazil to meet President Michel Temer; as well as in Argentina to talk with the head of state, Mauricio Macri.
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