The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) approved this Friday the roadmap for the accession of Peru and Brazilbut not that of Argentina, despite the “positive talks” with this country.
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The Secretary General of the OECD, Mathias Cormann, announced at a press conference in Paris the “formal adoption of the roadmap for the accession of Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru and Romania” at the end of a meeting of ministers of the organization that brings together the world’s largest economies with democratic regimes.
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“We warmly welcome these countries to the start of a positive and transformative process. We are also in positive talks with Argentina about the next steps in the accession process,” Cormann added, without elaborating.
The OECD announced in January the start of talks with these three Latin American countries and three Europeans for future membership in this currently 38-member club.
The next step was the approval of the roadmap that establishes the process and sets the conditions of membership. The OECD will carry out technical examinations in areas such as trade, investment, the fight against corruption and climate change.
Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia and Mexico are already part of the organization founded in 1961 and whose members represent about 80% of world trade and investment.
Adhesion to the OECD is a flag of the Brazilian Minister of Economy, the ultraliberal Paulo Guedes, and the approval of the roadmap occurs less than four months before the presidential elections in that country, in which the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro will seek a second term.
After the announcement of the beginning of the discussions in January, Guedes considered that the accession process to the OECD was “an acknowledgment” that Brazil is “a great country.”
The Peruvian president, the leftist Pedro Castillo, also thanked that decision at the time and affirmed that his government reiterated “its commitment to the values of the
OECD for the benefit of its population”.
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*With information from AFP
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