Uruguay looks forward to further enhancing economic and trade cooperation as well as people-to-people exchanges with China, including collaboration under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday.
Lacalle Pou's visit is crucial in providing a significant boost to ties. Uruguay can benefit from China's modernization, commercial growth, investment impetusand openness.
Economist Diana Mondino, who has been confirmed by President-elect Javier Milei to be the next Foreign Minister of Argentina, met in Buenos Aires Monday with Uruguayan Ambassador Carlos Enciso to discuss the “macroeconomic conditions” affecting ties between the two countries.
On his last full day in the country before leaving for China, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou criticized opposition leaders for suggesting he was involved in drug trafficking, which the Marset scandal that led to the resignation of several ministers earlier this month would allegedly prove.
After meeting with his US colleague Joseph Biden on Friday in Washington DC, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou has a busy agenda ahead of him Saturday back at home after the crisis sparked by the resignation of Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo, who was involved in a cover-up following the highly irregular issuance of a passport to wanted drug trafficker Sebastián Marset.