Paraguay and Argentina renewed the significance of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway

River site visitors on the Paraguay-Paraná waterway. Photograph Hidrovias do Brasil SA

Asuncion, IP Company.- Amongst different related features, Paraguay and Argentina “renewed the significance of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway because the strategic capital of each nations for his or her growth and entry to abroad markets beneath aggressive situations.” These are the factors established within the joint assertion between the Minister of Overseas Affairs of the Republic of Paraguay, Rubén Ramírez, and the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Commerce and Worship of the Argentine Republic, Diana Mondino.

1. On the event of the Normal Meeting of the Group of American States (OAS), the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Ambassador Rubén Ramírez and the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Commerce and Worship of the Argentine Republic, Ambassador Diana Mondino, held a bilateral assembly.
2. On this event, they welcomed the roadmap drawn up for the reactivation of the totally different bilateral mechanisms, throughout the framework of the Assembly of the Subcommittee on Political Affairs, held on April 9, 2024, in Buenos Aires. On this regard, they instructed that the joint commissions which can be nonetheless pending be convened as quickly as doable: the Joint Fee on the Prevention of Abuse and Suppression of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances; the Coordinating Committee of the Conference on Fish Sources; the Joint Fee on Technical and Scientific Cooperation and the Commerce Monitoring Fee.
3. The Overseas Ministers additionally agreed to convene and chair the Fee for Political Coordination and Integration (Grand Fee) in Argentina, as soon as all technical teams have submitted a report on the standing of the problems inside their competence.
4. They highlighted the agreements reached through the nineteenth Assembly of the Joint Technical Group on Bodily Integration between each nations to advertise tasks within the space of ​​highway, rail and digital integration, together with the development of worldwide bridges between Pilar and Puerto Cano and between Pozo Hondo and Misión La Paz; the development of border management areas in Puerto Falcón and Clorinda, in addition to the convergence of works for the immediate opening of the Bioceanic Street Hall.
5. They renewed the significance of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway as a strategic capital of each nations for his or her growth and entry to abroad markets beneath aggressive situations, and strengthened their dedication to undertake measures that privilege the effectivity of river transport, enhance navigability situations, reinforce their complementarity and strengthen the construction and institutionality of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Settlement on River Transport system, from a complete, cooperative and joint imaginative and prescient.
6. They reaffirmed the significance of the actions carried out by each governments to advertise the financial and social growth of their nations, whereas ratifying the dedication to enhance productive actions by way of manufacturing and logistics chains that combine each nations, for which they instructed the convening of the Commerce Monitoring Fee on the Vice-Minister degree.
7. Each Overseas Ministers ratified their dedication to deepen strategic ties in power issues, with particular emphasis on the executive, monetary and financial order of the Yacyretá Binational Entity, as a way to assure the operation and upkeep of the Hydroelectric Energy Plant, in addition to to make sure the progress and completion of the machining works on the Aña Cuá Department.
8. In addition they agreed on the significance of strengthening regional integration by way of new power tasks. They notably valued the proposal to construct the Vaca Muerta-Sao Paulo gasoline pipeline, passing by way of Paraguayan territory, as a way to provide pure gasoline not solely to Brazil but additionally to the Paraguayan home market.
9. In an effort to suggest options and procedures which can be agile and well timed for the transit of individuals, automobiles and items by way of the border crossings which were opened and are but to be opened, in addition to to advertise cooperation, integration and growth of the border areas between each nations, the Ministers urged their respective establishments to redouble their efforts to advance by way of technical mechanisms.
10. Making an allowance for the shared imaginative and prescient on the significance of safety for the event of each nations, they dedicated to strengthen cooperation within the frontal battle towards transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, cash laundering, illicit arms trafficking, threats to cybersecurity and different associated crimes, which undermine the peace and safety of their fellow residents.

On the finish of the assembly, each ministers highlighted the superb state of bilateral relations between the Republic of Paraguay and the Republic of Argentina and the significance of continuous to advance the bilateral agenda.