A New Zeland trade delegation headed by Prime Minister Helen Clark, other government officials and representatives from the country's main industries will visit Mercosur members next November.
The Chilean economy should begin to recover and could record a 4,8% growth during the second half of 2001, according to Hernán Büchi, an outstanding Chilean economist and former Finance Minister
After days of intense and marathonic bargaining the Argentine government finally managed political support for its zero deficit financial program that should ease international credit conditions and put the country's economy back in track.
World Bank vicepresident David De Ferranti reiterated this weekend in Buenos Aires the bank's support to Argentina's austerity package which targets zero deficit, and added that the De la Rúa administration is moving in the right direction.
Argentine diplomacy is working over time to try and arrange for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to visit Buenos Aires at the end of the month, when he will be officially meeting Brazilian president Fernando Cardoso in Brasilia