The trip begins next Saturday and details will be released at the weekend, but according to German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit, Scholz will meet Argentine leaders Alberto Fernandez, Chilean Gabriel Boric and Brazilian Lula da Silva.
The trip “underlines its relevance as a partner in the region”, said Hebestreit, saying that Germany is preparing to “deepen” political and economic relations with these countries, especially with regard to the fight against change. climate change and sustainable economic growth.
Scholz previously had the opportunity to speak with Fernandez during Germany’s last rotating presidency of the G7, a group of seven major world powers – the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Italy, in addition to Germany -, in which Argentina participated as a guest country for Latin America.
Germany is Argentina’s biggest trading partner in the European Union and a country of great importance in finding solutions to Ukraine’s war-precipitated energy crisis, a spokesperson for the Chancellery to the Spanish Press Agency.
The visit to Chile is the first by a German head of government in ten years, after the conservative Angela Merkel in 2013 and which will now bring together the Social Democratic Chancellor with the progressive Boric.
Brazil, a country to which Merkel has given in the past the position of preferential partner in the region, is for Scholz a kind of “reunion” between friends, after the return to power of Lula, a reference figure of the Social Democratic Party of the Chancellor (SPD). .
The Amazon Fund was stopped for three years, by decision of the Merkel government at the time, following the accelerated process of deforestation under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.
In terms of the economic context, Scholz intends to finally conclude the free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, as the German leader reiterated a few days ago in his speech before the Economic Fund in Davos, Switzerland.
CPR // MSF
By Impala News / Lusa
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