MNE argentina visits Portugal after going to China and Brussels
Argentina's foreign minister begins a 10-day trip to China, France, Belgium and Portugal on Sunday to drum up exports and investment for Latin America's third-largest economy.
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The diplomat is traveling to Paris, where she will participate, between May 2 and 3, in the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in which the roadmap for Argentina's accession to the multilateral organization could be announced.
Mondino will then meet with EU leaders in Brussels, on May 5 and 6, to try to advance bilateral negotiations with the European bloc, as well as the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur, of which Argentina is one of the member countries, along with Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia.
Mondino's trip ends on May 7 with a stop in Lisbon.
During the presidential campaign, Argentine head of state Javier Milei, elected in December, repeatedly rejected the idea of a trade alliance with China: "I do not make pacts with communists".
But, three weeks ago, Milei told the financial news agency Bloomberg Linea: "if people want to do business with China, they can do it".
China is Argentina's second largest trading partner, after Brazil, accounting for 24.4% of Argentine imports and 6.6% of exports, according to the latest official data.
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