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Argentina Stresses Integration
Buenos Aires - Argentinian Foreign Minister Jorge Triana
said regional integration, with unity in their
positions, is essential to move forward great
discussions in the world.
In a debate-talk on Tuesday night, organized by the
Floreal Gorini Cultural Center for Cooperation, he
remarked that the process for integration is not
conflicting with but rather complementary of
multilateralism, and conceives that Argentina plays
a role in the world, with integration in two fronts.
One is the economic-trade front, in the context of
MERCOSUR, he said, and the other is rather
political, that of the Union of South American
Nations (UNASUR).
He said the subcontinent shapes a huge geographical
area and has a historic debt in developing economic
infrastructure, hence the importance of merging the
processes with technological transference, training
of officials and energy integration, which is very
important to development, he asserted.
He also said political and cultural unity is
essential, "because if we do not see each other as
brothers with equal objectives, it is impossible to
make progress."
In this reference, the head of the Argentinian
diplomacy said the political element that has been
built in South America is important, and repeated
words used by President Cristina Fernandez, who has
highlighted publicly that few times have the leaders
elected in the subcontinent's countries looked so
much like their people.
He reiterated that only with joint stances, is it
possible to reach objectives in negotiations with
other countries and blocs in the world.
He asserted that the 4th Summit of the Americas in
Mar del Plata in 2005 was an important corner stone
in the hemisphere's policy, when they said NO to the
Free Trade Agreement for the Americas (FTAA) and
gave priority to work, as the core of human dignity
and wealth production, above Washington's consensus.
In his opinion, from then to the organization of
America States (OAS) meeting, which eliminated by
acclaim the 1962 resolution that expelled Cuba from
the organization, a time for great changes began. He
was satisfied with having participated in that
recent OAS assembly in San Pedro Sula, because it
eliminated not only an anachronism and an injustice,
but also something that was affecting the dignity of
all the countries that allowed its existence.
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