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“This is what Uruguay needs”: Orsi welcomes common ground after one-on-one talks with opposition

From El País · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi said individual meetings with opposition leaders helped create open exchanges and identify common ground on foreign policy.
  • Orsi said politicians were also using the meetings to raise domestic issues, including prosecutor security and policing in high-crime areas.
  • Colorado Party Secretary-General Andrés Ojeda said Orsi’s United Nations trip would include meetings on investment, organized crime coordination with Chile and artificial intelligence.

Yamandú Orsi says Uruguay needs more one-on-one political conversations, arguing that private exchanges allow leaders to discuss subjects they might avoid in larger meetings.

I love it. You can talk a lot, and in a one-on-one meeting you feel more comfortable discussing other things. That is what needs to happen in Uruguay.

· Yamandú OrsiThe president praised individual meetings with opposition leaders.

The president made the comments after separate meetings on Friday with Colorado Party Secretary-General Andrés Ojeda, Independent Party leader Pablo Mieres and Cabildo Abierto president Guido Manini Ríos. Orsi is due to travel to New York for the United Nations, and said the talks helped him compare views ahead of that trip.

“It's what needs to happen in Uruguay,” Orsi said, describing the meetings as a chance to speak more freely. He called the back-and-forth essential, particularly on the “extremely complex” issues of international politics. He said the parties were not far apart in their broad foreign-policy aims, which he viewed as a positive sign.

The back-and-forth is essential.

· Yamandú OrsiOrsi emphasized dialogue on complex international-policy issues.

The meetings also covered issues outside the international agenda. Ojeda raised the security of prosecutors and policing in areas with high crime rates. Orsi said such subjects were an obvious part of the conversations and that one-on-one meetings made it easier to hear them and respond in depth. He added that all sides were calling for less political confrontation, describing that as part of the understanding behind the meetings.

There is a very interesting agenda. We identified three very concrete and specific activities that are highly relevant to Uruguay.

· Andrés OjedaOjeda described planned meetings during Orsi's United Nations trip.

Ojeda said Orsi’s United Nations agenda included a meeting with an investment fund, talks with Chilean President José Antonio Kast on coordinating efforts against organized crime, and a meeting with other leaders about the future of artificial intelligence. Ojeda said Uruguay depended on investment and credit, which he linked to employment in the country.

This is what our people's jobs depend on.

· Andrés OjedaOjeda linked foreign investment and credit to employment in Uruguay.
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Originally published by El País in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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