“This action (Lacalle’s visit to the United Kingdom) is opening doors for new opportunities to generate more employment and more investment,” explained the head of the union, Marcelo Mercant.
“I believe that at this time we have to look after the interests of our people, our businessmen and the entire Uruguayan people and this action is opening doors for new opportunities to generate more employment and more investment,” said Mercant.
After the visit of the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle, to the United Kingdom, where he held a meeting with the prime minister of that country, Boris Johnson, the president of the British-Uruguayan Chamber of Commerce pointed out in dialogue with Radio Universal that there is an alignment between government policy and diplomacy.
Likewise, Mercant indicated that since Mercosur and the European Union are not advancing in finalizing the treaty, Uruguay “has the right and the opportunity to seek other options for the good of its people.”
The representative of the Chamber of Commerce of both countries, said that opening up to markets such as the United Kingdom should bring joy to all of society, “because we are looking for and knocking on the doors of countries in which their development can help us to develop ourselves.” a little more”.
In another order, he stressed that this relationship with the European country “I see it with optimism that it deepens.”
And he added: “How can the neighbors take it? If I were a neighbor like Brazil and Argentina, I would be glad that Uruguay is doing well, I wouldn’t see it badly”.
“I have not seen that the governments of our neighbors have helped us so much, being such good allies and within Mercosur,” he summarized.
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