The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonia Urrejola, and the Undersecretary for International Economic Relations, José Miguel Ahumada, today accompanied the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, in a meeting, held at the Palacio de La Moneda, with the ambassadors of the economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum with representation in Chile.

The meeting was held ahead of Chile’s participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which will take place from November 14 to 19 in Bangkok, Thailand.

“It was a very important meeting to give a political signal of the importance for Chile and for this government of our relationship with the Pacific, our relationship with APEC, as well as the issues that will be discussed during the leaders’ meeting. world in Thailand. said the Chancellor after the meeting.

“The president has emphasized, first and foremost, looking to the Pacific, not only commercially, but also culturally and environmentally, which is very important,” explained the Secretary of State. “Furthermore, he underscored the importance of the issues that are going to be discussed in Thailand, which have to do precisely with what our government’s economic and economic development agenda is, which is sustainable and sustainable development. , the vision of ecology and inclusion.. These issues will be discussed at APEC and are very much in line with the government’s priorities in this area,” he added.

For his part, the Subrei pointed out that “one of the questions we are going to deal with is how to make trade not only a platform for growth, but also an aid for environmental sustainability, for the productive development of nations , and also to be able to face the geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges that we are currently facing.

APEC is the only economic forum in the Asia-Pacific region of which Chile is a member. It is made up of 21 economies, including our country’s main trading partners. Its objective is to create greater prosperity for its people by promoting inclusive, sustainable and innovative growth, fostering economic and technical cooperation, the exchange of best practices and accelerating regional economic integration.

It should be noted that Chile has signed 18 trade agreements of varying scope with 16 of the 20 other APEC economies. The Ambassadors of Australia, Canada, China, Korea, United States, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippine Chargé d’Affaires participated in today’s meeting.