Tuesday 05 August
2008, San José, Costa Rica
Ortega Asks IADB to
Assist Fire Victims
Panamanians to Protest
against High Cost of
Living
More Observers in
Bolivia Referendum
Argentina, Brazil Agree
To Strengthen Strategic
Integration
Venezuela Receives
Russia-Made Planes
|
Argentina, Brazil Agree
To Strengthen Strategic
Integration
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina
and Brazil agreed here
on Monday to strengthen
strategic integration in
economic development
between the two
countries in face of
globalization.
At a ceremony to
inaugurate a
entrepreneur forum,
Argentine president
Cristina Fernandez and
her Brazilian
counterpart Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva agreed
that both countries will
benefit from regional
and bilateral
integration.
An estimated 1,000
businessmen -- 700 from
Argentina and 300 from
Brazil -- attended the
inaugural ceremony.
Da Silva urged the
entrepreneurs not to see
their neighbors as
rivals but as
cooperation partners,
and that national
interests do not stop
strategic agreement
between the two
countries.
Da Silva urged efforts
to strengthen the
development of small-
and medium-sized
enterprises to turn them
into "true engines of
integration" between the
two countries, and to
promote public policy
coordination. He
suggested that
businessmen from both
countries who "have a
crucial role" in the
integration process meet
regularly to debate
economic policies.
Speaking on the same
occasion, Fernandez said
Brazil is "the most
important country of the
region" in terms of
industrial development.
Argentina and Brazil are
united "not only by
affection", but also by
"a common vision about
the need of strategic
relations."
The two countries had a
friction at the World
Trade Organization's
Doha Round last week.
Argentina opposed
Brazil's position of
trade globalization,
which it said was
supportive of objectives
of industrialized
nations.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
