President Piñera chaired a Binational Business meeting at the Palacio San Martín of the Foreign Ministry
Today at the Palacio San Martín, Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie met with the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, who started a State Visit to Argentina yesterday. Before a delegation of Chilean and Argentine businesspeople, Piñera chaired the "Argentina-Chile, a strategic partnership for value creation" Working Meeting, which was also attended by the Minister of Treasury, Nicolás Dujovne, the Minister of Production, Francisco Cabrera, and the Heads of the Binational Business Council for the two countries, Luis Pagani and Horst Paulmann.
"We hope for joint work with a view to adopting measures that the two presidents will implement within the next few months, so as to strengthen and complete Argentina and Chile's integration," Faurie stated before receiving Piñera.
"We are working on every front: physical and energy integration, cooperation in other regions (such as cooperation in the South), joint work in national parks, the idea of having an ocean park governed by joint regulations with a view to promoting development, and having integrated tourism circuits, among others," Faurie stated and added that "at these meetings we address every front of the bilateral relationship, as Argentina and Chile are closely united, not only geographically but also because they share a common view of the future."
"We are working so that within this year we can finally devise a true energy integration scheme, not only comprising electricity but also gas," the Argentine Foreign Minister stated. When asked about the business meeting to be held at the Palacio San Martín, he further added: "We need to truly explore the possibility that, in order to have real value chain integration and achieve bi-oceanic integration for the two countries, Argentine companies have to create synergy with their Chilean counterparts."
After the meeting, President Piñera and Foreign Minister Faurie went to San Martín Square, where the traditional wreath-laying ceremony at the Monument to General San Martín was held.
Press Release No. 169/18
