Foreign Minister Felipe Solá participated this Thursday (13.08.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX), via videoconference, in the opening ceremony of the so-called ""Integration Committees" between Argentina and Paraguay, together with his counterpart from that country, Antonio Rivas Palacios, in which the "strategic and sustained articulation over time" between both nations was highlighted.
"Argentina and Paraguay are sister countries, with a common past and social, cultural, political and economic ties that unite us. For this reason, it is important for us to participate in this Integration Committee," Solá said during the event, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry. release.
Officials from the provinces of Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa, Misiones and Salta, in Argentina, took part in the videoconference, along with the governors of the Paraguayan departments of Boquerón, Itapúa, Misiones, Ñeembucú and Presidente Hayes.
Solá referred to the Argentine-Paraguayan collaboration during the coronavirus pandemic, stating that "Argentina has repatriated 1.300 people from Paraguay and that would not have been possible without the collaboration of the Paraguayan government.
The Argentine government has also collaborated with Paraguay in coordinating the repatriation of more than 1.200 of its citizens and residents since the beginning of the pandemic.
«The bilateral agenda presents opportunities and challenges that are always addressed from the bonds of brotherhood that unite us, whose materiality also includes a extensive border of almost 1700 kilometers with 36 international crossings"Sola said.
The head of the San Martín Palace considered that The Integration Committees represent "an instance of strategic and sustained articulation over time""where decision-makers from different government bodies and civil society come together to share agendas and resolve specific problems."
Solá also referred to the joint work of both countries on the Paraná River and thanked Paraguay for its technical cooperation in regulating the flows released by the Itaipú and Yacyretá dams.
Finally, the Argentine foreign minister reiterated his intention to meet with his Paraguayan counterpart in person when the pandemic conditions allow it, as well as to arrange a bilateral meeting between President Alberto Fernández and his Paraguayan counterpart Mario Abdo Benítez.
The videoconference was attended by the governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Valdez; the governor of Chaco, Jorge Capitanich; the governor of Misiones, Oscar Herrera Ahuad; the vice-governor of Salta, Antonio Oscar Marocco; and the minister of Economy, Treasury and Finance of Formosa, Jorge Oscar Ibañez, among others.
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