While all local politics looks to Brazil after Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva’s narrow electoral victory in Sunday’s presidential election, Patricia Bullrich stood out from the line of greetings and congratulations to the metallurgist who will rise to power on January 1, and she went to Montevideo meets Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou.
“We think about it with President Lacalle Poua common policy open to the world and respect for human rights, where security, prosperity and integration they are fundamental for the region ”, summed up the leader of the PRO in a statement released this Monday afternoon.
“We will do much better if we think big and not small, so I proposed to the President that, instead of thinking about small benefits for each countryLet’s think about what we can do together. If we want to be a peace zone for prosperity, we can think of a common regional security policy. To avoid problems with the door it is better think of regional ports and in a common South Atlantic policy together with Brazil, ”added Bullrich.
On another of his usual issues, security, Mauricio Macri’s former minister felt that “we too have challenges to democracy and drug trafficking “.
Bullrich also refined his view on foreign policy: “Our view is that of greater regional integration, but one that is open and not closed to the world. No doubt we want to advance in trade agreements to open markets to our producers. starting with the EU and continuing through Southeast Asia, India and North Africa. We must have a common policy towards China. “.
“We would like to work together for that Brazil shares this greater integration and thus we become a world-class platform for the supply of food, energy, mining, tourism and services, with an efficient industry for the region, ”concluded the head of the PRO.
PRO president Patricia Bullrich visited Uruguay this weekend to meet in Montevideo groups of Argentine residents therewho are organizing their participation in the next elections in our country.
The leader and presidential candidate traveled to Punta del Este to support andMeetings with businessmen and investors who settled in Uruguayin order to analyze the conditions necessary to allow the return to Argentina of its activities and businesses.
This Monday, at the end of the tour, the head of the PRO had a meeting with the president of the brother country, Luis Lacalle Pou and subsequently met with Vice President Beatriz Argimón Cedeira.
Source: Clarin
