Representatives of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) are meeting in Buenos Aires from February 12 to 15 to advance the free trade agreement.
"New round of negotiations between Mercosur and EFTA," announced the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement. release.
The Secretary of International Economic Relations of the Foreign Ministry, Horacio Reyser, said that an agreement with EFTA represents "part of the plan to modernize Mercosur to transform it into a platform oriented towards the intelligent insertion of its members in the global economy."
The seventh round of negotiations began with #EFTA en @CancilleriaARG. This future agreement is part of the modernization plan of the @mercosur to transform it into a platform aimed at the intelligent insertion of its members into the global economy? https://t.co/VXcDJHkwbN
— Horacio Reyser (@HoracioReyser) February 12th 2019
The delegation from the South American bloc is led by the Undersecretary of Mercosur and International Economic Negotiations, Victorio Carpintieri, and the EFTA delegation is headed by the Director General of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries of Norway, Jan Farberg.
Mercosur is made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (with Venezuela on hold), while Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland are part of EFTA.
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