Mexico City. The Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, concluded her working visit to Santiago de Chile yesterday, with the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between both countries.
The foreign minister said that the relationship between Mexico and Chile is going through the best moment in its history, which reflects the deep affinities that exist between the governments of Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Gabriel Boric.
“Our governments have made a very important commitment to navigate in a horizon of justice, equality and exchange,” he stressed.
She recalled that the FTA “unites us with a growing and sustained trade exchange,” and shared that the modernization of the treaty includes two pioneering chapters: the inclusion of women in foreign trade and collaboration between micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
“It is a cutting-edge instrument that demonstrates the commercial and economic innovation that can be generated between countries in the global south. […] Mexico and Chile can produce, consume and achieve active value chains, 90 percent of trade between our countries is tariff-free, this speaks of the mutual trust that exists and the complementarity in commercial matters,” he said.
Bárcena also highlighted the deep ties of friendship between the nations, “our countries have shown unwavering solidarity in facing the challenges posed by the fires in Chile and Hurricane Otis in Acapulco.”
“We do not only communicate through diplomacy, but also through the support we give each other as brothers and through the cultural closeness that has always accompanied us and is a very important factor in our history,” he said.
As part of her working visit, Foreign Minister Bárcena also participated in the VIII Meeting of the Council of the Mexico-Chile Strategic Partnership Agreement (EPA), in which she signed memorandums of understanding on Feminist Foreign Policy, indigenous peoples, and academic exchange, which reaffirm and deepen cooperation between the countries.
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– 2024-08-13 00:14:58
