Five South American Presidents and an elected representative meet at this forum chaired by the hosting dignitary Alberto Fernández and the other three full members, Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Paraguayan Mario Abdo Benítez and Uruguayan Luis Lacalle Pou.
Argentine government sources confirmed the presence of the head of state of Bolivia, a country fully committed to this integration forum, and Paraguay’s president-elect Santiago Peña, who will take over as head of his country’s executive branch next August.
The meeting will take place at a hotel in Iguazú National Park, about 1,300 kilometers northwest of Buenos Aires, near the falls near the Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay border.
Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta headed the Bolivian delegation this Monday, which attended the ordinary meeting of the Mercosur Council as a country in the accession process.
Before the LXII. At the summit of Heads of State and Associated States, which will meet this Tuesday, the Foreign Ministers’ Forum has resumed Bolivia’s accession as a full member of this multilateral organization, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The plenary session of heads of state, staff and guests is scheduled for this Tuesday. It is the first time that Mercosur dignitaries have met for a summit since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019.
During the two working days, the work carried out during Argentina’s pro tempore presidency in the first semester of the current year will be analyzed.
Among these actions, the tenth edition of the Mercosur Business Forum stands out.
At this meeting, debates centered on five main themes: biotechnology, gender equality and trade; transition to sustainable mobility in the automotive sector; Manufacture of medical devices and drug development and integration of advertising services in the audio-visual field.
He also highlighted the work done this semester by the Mercosur Economic and Social Forum, chaired by Gerardo Martínez, with the active participation of workers, business people and civil society from the four member countries, according to a Mercosur report.
This multilateral structure of South America consists of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Based on the Treaty of Asunción, which is open to other member states of the Latin American Integration Union, Venezuela became the first Latin American country to join the founding treaty in 2006, and more recently Bolivia in 2015.
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