 Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen in the room and online to this press conference at the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum We are honored and delighted to welcome back mr. Mauricio Macri President of Argentina in your special address You stated that Argentina is ready to take its place in the world as a world player and your commitment to reducing poverty in Argentina President Macri, please share with us your vision for Argentina and your presidency of the G20 Well, good morning everybody. Thank you for attending this press conference Let me share with you my very optimistic View for the future I really believe that Argentina is a country with a high potential I am sure that it must be in nowadays the country with the biggest potential around the world Because we we have incredible natural resources, but more important than that we have amazing human resources talent and entrepreneurship and after many many years of isolation we are Going back to the world with an intelligent approach to long-term relationships Fortunately, we have an incredible reception from the world We are building good relations with nearly every country around the world and From from that I expect that we will build the new initiatives Other value products and that will create jobs Jobs that will reduce the poverty in my country. That is my first commitment as you mentioned and and we are proud and Maybe what is one of the biggest challenges in our history? We are proud to lead the G20 this year and we expect that during the whole year we will keep working together and trying to find ways to have a steady firm and Better inclusive growth in the whole world because even though the world is growing there are many Still many places in which they don't feel the results. So that means that we have to keep Working on I think that the best way is to debate and to find Tools in which will help everybody. I think the three things that we have elected The work of future or the future of work Education and food security are three opportunities to to develop New new projects and new ways To create growth. No, so at the same time We were we will have in the meeting a gender across approach during the whole G20 and we also expect to to work around more deeply around also Health subjects that also were raised in in Berlin But more or less that's a summary and maybe we can start with the questions yes, so The microphone will come around. Please state your name and the media outlet you're from the gen the woman on front I Miss the president. This is Angela from China senator calm. It's a Chinese website My question is from this annual meeting. We can say some countries are pro globalization, but some are not I Want to know your view of point regarding to globalization and will you meet president Trump During this annual meeting and what kind of trade relationships you are expecting from USA and China? Thank you Was a long question We may stay the whole day answering your question, but well briefly First I really appreciate the relationship with China China is very present in Argentina as in the whole South America We are working together in many sectors Food security is one of them energy. They had been very aggressive in investing in Argentina Nuclear we are planning to build nuclear plants hydroelectric plants. They had participated in the for renewable energy tenders and They are investing in in also in tourism In with the states I have a very good relationship with the long relationship with Donald Trump and He had been very helpful in improving our relations and we expect to continue working together Even though maybe we may not share the short-term view in terms of multilateralism vis-a-vis bilateralism and I expect that we will all be part of this G20 meeting and we'll continue debating and finding Again insist tools that will benefit our citizens I don't know if something else that I left or not. It's okay Globalization globalization is a reality We can't stop it our kids were born under a globalization basis, you know that they chat Around the whole world that they travel through internet Knowing what happens in the whole world e-commerce is boosting globalization so I think that It's something that we have to adapt to and our obligation as leaders is trying to find tools like work as buffers so Citizens can adapt it adapt to all these changes in in a better way. That's that's our main main task Good morning, Jorge Valero from the Spanish delil economista have two quick questions the first one do Argentinian experience itself the weaknesses of Multilateralism you hosted their last round of the WTO and there was not a lot of success there Are you concerned about the results that you could get during the G20 presidency and a second question on Mercosur? The bone of contagion is the beef quotas. Do you see some room for compromise in the near future? And what will be that compromise? let's start by Maybe the short term the most important thing I think that is crucial for Mercosur and I really believe that also for the European Union find an agreement between Mercosur and European Union. I think that we are quite close to Sign the political agreement that will take us to Negotiate the legal agreement that will take another maybe 18 months and then a 10 year period In which we are going to start opening the different sectors of our economies so it's a lot of time in terms of what is going on on the world and I expect that we will have the the courage of going forward and The Attitude to solve the the small problems that was still there and I expect that in my meeting tomorrow With Macron we will find Solution for a couple of issues are still there Because I really believe that it's a huge huge opportunity for both WTO everybody Everybody congratulate me For the organization and for the good beef and the good wine and the beautiful city Unfortunately, we couldn't go much further In the meeting, but we have to keep working. There's no other way as I mentioned before So we're going to take one more question then back and then we'll move to the other side of the room very back Thank You president. I'm Daniel Reeter from Brazil's Volod Economica. What's your expectation regarding? What's your expectation for Argentina's entry in the OECD and Secondly in your Dinner with mr. Macron. Are you gonna? Talk about The payment of that with a Swiss Angie Yes, we already agree to pay that old debt with the Swiss and Related related to OECD. We are very optimistic and we really believe that is a great tool for us to confirm the path That we had taken two years ago and continue the reforms as I told I had said in my speech minutes ago some minutes ago We are building consensus in Argentina around an agenda of permanent reforms No, we really believe in that and not only as for a country like Argentina that fall backwards for everybody this this incredible technological Breakthrough that we are going through Demands that we have to be open And we have to understand we we need to be under permanent reforms. This is the times that we are living So the lady in the front The lady Thank you President Vivian Rodriguez with Bloomberg news. This is a question about a domestic issue in Argentina Regarding the central bank a lot of analysts and investors feel that Sturznäger is a bit pressured to cut interest rates faster Then expected so that he could promote faster growth in Argentina Therefore, there's a chance he would just resign and leave the central bank. What do you have to say about that? In Argentina, we are all under a huge pressure Because we want to grow faster, we want to reduce poverty faster And the central bank With absolute independence given the goals of the executive power It has to achieve That they meet But with absolute independence So they will manage monetary policy according to how he has said it a few days ago According to Vea that inflation goes down or not goes down Adapt to monetary policy because it is also a priority Bajar the inflation porque está ligado a bajar la pobreza y a crear trabajo y buen trabajo y ganar productividad Presidente es aquí el burgo from a clearing newspaper. I will switch to English for everybody's Understands I will to ask you Which is the balance of this visit to Davos and if you get if you got what you expected in this visit And we are very happy Talking in Representation of the whole delegation what I I've seen is optimism enthusiasm here that the ministers In the delegation, but also All the business community that came are enthusiastic with new partnerships new players especially ready to be part of the all these PPP tenders that we are launching I'm talking about Highways roads ports Waterworks energy and I had like I Don't know anymore how many because of course we're one after the other but in that more than 15 meetings and all very important companies everybody Announcing that they are going to disembark in Argentina. They're going to Start operations in Argentina. So we are in the process of receiving new investments Investments always take some time to take decision then to Implement them and but things are working and really very happy of the results and I Continue to see a huge support from the whole world to Argentina Whole world is surprised so for the results that we had achieved in such a short period and We should continue working in this direction. It's the right direction well One more question from the back the gentleman in the back You say that tomorrow one hour ago Gracias Carlos Mota de ADN 40 en la ciudad de México le pregunto presidente que expectiva tiene de su visita a Mexico Tras la invitación que le hizo el presidente peña nieto y es específicamente en materia comercial que tipo de integración Buscaría tener la Argentina con México Tengo muchas ganas de visitar México país muy querido Los argentinos lo visitamos permanentemente muchos argentinos viven en México Muchos argentinos van a las playas maravillosa de ti en los mexicanos Muchos jugadores de futbol argentinos juegan en México Y lo que tenemos es poco comarcio países tan cercanos no tan con tantas lazos de amistad que tengamos tan poco comarcio si que espero ir y tener resultados concretos en abrir el comarcio Sobre todo el agroindustrial el de la industria automotriz creo que son dos campos donde podemos Generar mucho intercambio así que ojalá lo logremos y con el presidente Peña Nieto tengo una gran relación así que él va a venir para Como última tarea casi de su gobierno al G20 en Buenos Aires no se quería pedir no se quería perder Como era un buen bife en Buenos Aires Bueno muchas gracias a todos