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Senior representatives of the Mercosur and of China resumed talks yesterday with a view to deepening their relationship, in a meeting at the request of Uruguaycurrent pro tempore president of the South American bloc and promoter of a free trade agreement with the Asian giant.
Six years after the last meeting, also held in Montevideo, the VII round of the Dialogue Mechanism between Mercosur and China was led by the Uruguayan undersecretary of foreign relations, Nicholas Albertoni.
Speaking to reportersAlbertoni said that China He promised to present a roadmap in the coming months “for what he called strengthening dialogue.”
“Although market access is on the horizon,” the trade issue generates different positions in the countries, so China proposed a logic of “advancing on issues of decreasing sensitivity,” explained the Uruguayan Vice Chancellor.
The meeting was attended by delegates of equal rank from the four founding countries of Mercosur: Leopoldo Shaores (Argentina), Maria Laura da Rocha (Brazil) and Patricia Frutos (Paraguay).
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