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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 09:18 UTC

Tag: Luis Lacalle Pou

  • Monday, July 25th 2022 - 23:30 UTC

    Uruguayan FM hopes other Mercosur countries will join Chinese FTA talks

    Bustillo longed for the FTA to be finalized during the current administration of President Luis Lacalle Pou, despite negotiations started during the presidency of Tabaré Vazquez (2015-2020)

    After meeting Monday with members of a Chinese delegation who are in Montevideo since Saturday, Uruguayan Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo said he hoped the other members of Mercosur would soon join the Free Trade Agreement negotiations because the Asian giant was “open to cooperation both with Mercosur and with the particular member country.”

  • Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 21:20 UTC

    Uruguay refuses to sign Mercosur Summit's joint statement

    Lacalle said the document was not open to “flexibilizing” the bloc

    The Government of Uruguay Thursday refrained from signing the joint document penned at the Mercosur Summit in Asunción, on the grounds that it lacked any mention of flexibilization, which the Luis Lacalle Pou administration needs to broker one-on-one deals with other blocs or countries or blocs of the block.

  • Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

    Uruguay announces beginning of talks with China to reach FTA

    Lacalle insisted his government's steps are not incompatible with Mercosur rules

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday announced negotiations with China to reach a bilateral free trade agreement are to begin, after technical teams from the two countries found it feasible, it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    Lacalle Pou gave an Uruguayan mare to the Emir of Qatar as a gift and left on Monday: Why is it important?

    The prince had expressed to Lacalle the intention of having a Uruguayan horse in his establishment.

    This Monday, a Criollo horse that the Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, promised to send as a gift to the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left Uruguay for Qatar. Last February, the South American president offered the animal during his trip to that country for the international fair Expo Dubai.

  • Saturday, July 2nd 2022 - 09:57 UTC

    Colombia, Uruguay sign extradition deal

    Photo: Pixabay

    Colombia and Uruguay Friday signed an agreement on extradition and cooperation in judicial matters during a meeting in Cartagena.

  • Friday, July 1st 2022 - 22:45 UTC

    Lacalle arrives in Colombia to meet Duque but not Petro

    Luis Lacalle Pou will not be meeting President-elect Gustavo Petro, who is off to Europe on a short holiday before taking office next month

    Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou landed late Thursday local time at Bogotá's Eldorado international airport, where he was welcomed by Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Echeverri.

  • Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 02:11 UTC

    Argentine opposition Congressman meets with Uruguayan President

    “We have to learn a lot from what President Lacalle Pou has achieved in his administration,” Frigerio said after meeting with the Uruguayan President

    Argentine Congressman Rogelio Frigerio of the opposition JxC coalition held meetings with Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou and other Multicolor Coalition leaders to discuss the situation of the Uruguay River as well as the need to improve integration processes between the two countries, including possible changes to Mercosur.

  • Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

    Uruguay Congress Falklands declaration expected first week of July; differences on the term 'usurpation'

    Senator Gustavo Penadés has objected to the wording of the initial declaration presented by the opposition

    The Uruguayan parliament is expected to make a legislative declaration relative to the Falkland Islands conflict and the 40th anniversary of the war during the first week of July. The initiative was presented by the opposition catch-all coalition (Broad Front) in April, but the final decision has been delayed since the senior member of the ruling coalition which supports president Luis Lacalle Pou, does not agree with the wording.

  • Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

    Uruguayan President holds meeting with the Mayor of Buenos Aires

    Argentina's opposition needs the broadest coalition possible ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, Lacalle told Larreta

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday welcomed Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta at the Suárez y Reyes residency, in Montevideo, in a meeting during which they discussed the conditions for “updating and relaunching” Mercosur, to make it a “dynamic, modern, and integrated to the world” bloc.

  • Monday, June 13th 2022 - 23:56 UTC

    Mercosur Summit scheduled for Asunción July 21

    Paraguay holds Mercosur's pro tempore presidency of Mercosur a d will therefore host the Summit.

    Mercosur Foreign Ministers Monday agreed to hold the upcoming Summit of the Group in Asunción on July 21. It will be the first face-to-face encounter of all four regional leaders since all previous meetings involving all four current leaders were all held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.