[Economics] President Lasso calls for a more dynamic regional economic framework

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He did so during the Summit of the Americas meeting held in the US.

The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, requested this Friday, June 10, 2022, at the Summit of the Americas, a more dynamic regional economic framework that allows, among other things, to address migration issues more effectively.

He considered that migration "is a problem" for the countries, that "it will not end until we make a serious and creative effort together to improve job opportunities, a healthy life, and education in our own countries."

Lasso asserted that only in this way will young people have "valid and attractive" life alternatives in their place of origin. After noting that "safe and orderly migration must be achieved worldwide," he recalled that Ecuador has received thousands of displaced Colombians from the border conflict for forty years.

In addition, in the last decade, his country has received "hundreds of thousands" of Venezuelans.

"To be able to serve them, to be able to exercise public policy on them, I made the decision to regularize more than 500,000 Venezuelan citizens, settled in my country, so that they have a safe and stable situation, which allows them to be actors in the process. economic development," he said.

I was of the opinion that the "construction of a more dynamic regional economic framework, a clearer, more consistent cooperation" is an essential condition to talk about migration.

The president reiterated that any solution requires generating more opportunities in each country "and that is linked to an orderly management of the economy."

To face the challenges of the present and the future, Lasso called for greater unity and "achieve a true continental regional integration."

 

"Only in this way, with a large economic bloc, can each of our countries prosper and their economies grow and rise," he said, echoing statements by United States President Joe Biden on the need for "a framework of economic integration from south to north, and from the middle to the sides".

Likewise, he ratified the importance of unity to face problems, such as environmental ones, and thanked the solidarity of other United States, Canada, Mexico and Chile to provide Ecuador with vaccines to face the covid-19 pandemic.

And on security issues, he ruled out that "the formation of a single economic bloc" is required, since "it is now that we have to unite in our efforts for internal security, food, production and free trade."

On the other hand, the harmful ramifications of international crime were mentioned, of the powerful transnational cartels that "try to establish their drug trafficking routes in Ecuador," and that are facing each other in a dispute over territories.

He asked for "solidarity and support" from the continent for the battle against the criminal structures that "tarnish the dreams" of children and young people on the continent, he said.

Before concluding his speech, Lasso sent an affectionate greeting to his colleague from Colombia, Iván Duque, who will soon finish his term.

"His work over the last four years has made him a guiding leader in defense of democracy, security and prosperity in Latin America," he concluded.

 

Link: https://www.ecuavisa.com/noticias/economia/ecuador-y-australia-acuerdan-creacion-de-un-consejo-de-comercio-e-inversiones-MC1958482