Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie said on Thursday (19.7.2018), at the end of the new round of negotiations between Mercosur and the European Union (EU), that "significant progress has been made in areas that are very sensitive and delicate for both parties."
“We have had a new round of negotiations that we believe is positive because We work hard to find the points of approximationtion on the most sensitive issues of the negotiation process, which has still remained open to date," Faurie said in the statement.
The head of diplomacy thus referred to the round of negotiations that took place in Brussels since July 9, and added that he hopes to take up the technical work in the Uruguayan capital "soon."
"We hope to soon resume the technical work and the final aspects of everything., in order to receive them later in Montevideo, which is where the presidency of our bloc is currently held, and to be able to move forward," he said. To the point that he clarified, "Everything has to close so that everything stays closed."
The temporary presidency of the bloc is exercised every six months by each of the members, who rotate in alphabetical order. At this time,
"There are many things that need to be considered," said the Chancellor.It is a long and complex negotiation, and very ambitious. because it is five times larger than the EU-Japan Agreement and almost eight times larger than the EU-Canada Agreement,” he added.
This week, Faurie and his colleagues Rodolfo Nin Novoa from Uruguay, Aloysio Nunes from Brazil, Eladio Loizaga from Paraguay, and the European Commissioners Cecilia Malmström from Trade and Phil Hogan from Agriculture joined the round of negotiations in Brussels.
The foreign ministers were in Belgium to attend the ministerial meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) that took place on July 16 and 17.
An economic trade agreement is not just about cars, geographic identification, agricultural products or rules of origin. It is all these chapters together that we are negotiating, along with many others, and in which progress has been made.
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