Boric will meet with the Prime Minister of Canada before the Summit of the Americas

The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, will travel to Canada on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with the aim of promoting common priorities, among which stand out the adoption of measures to address climate change, progress in human rights and equality. gender and settle the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

The meeting was confirmed by a statement from the Canadian government and will take place before the two travel to the United States for the Summit of the Americas, where the two leaders are expected to present “a proposed agreement for the creation of protected marine corridors in across the Pacific Ocean”, as the Chilean President explains in yesterday’s management report.

The initiative will be one of the main subjects of conversation between the two leaders and is part of the “turquoise” foreign policy of Gabriel Boric, which evokes, according to the president himself, a “green focus” on the protection of biodiversity, and a “blue focus” on the protection of the oceans, which aims to promote “international cooperation and multilateralism of the global south, from an ecological perspective”.

After the trip to Canada, Boric will travel to the United States to hold a bilateral meeting with the North American leader, Joe Biden, within the framework of the Summit of the Americas, which will take place from June 6 to 10 in the city of Los Angeles. . .

The Chilean government has taken steps to include Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela in the regional meeting, although the Chilean president’s participation in the forum was not contingent on the success of the negotiations.

Trudeau has already spoken twice with Boric since the Chilean president was elected in December 2021.

Canada and Chile have had diplomatic relations since 1941, spanning more than 80 years, and in particular, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) and cooperation agreements in environmental and labor matters.

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