Before his departure from the Simón Bolívar air base in Guayaquil, the president said he would also attend a meeting of the Security Council, of which Ecuador is a non-permanent member.
We will hold high-level meetings, including with the President of Korea, with whom we are about to sign a trade agreement, the President added.
He also reported on discussions he will have with William, Prince of Wales, about the strategy of ecological transition and the practice of swapping debt for nature conservation.
The President and his accompanying delegation will spend ten days in the United States as they travel to Washington after attending the multilateral organization’s annual meeting.
There they will meet with authorities in the northern country to discuss security, environmental, migration and trade agreements, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said.
He also announced meetings with U.S. congressmen about the so-called IDEA Act, a provision the executive branch considers beneficial because more than 90 percent of national products would enter the United States without tariffs.
This is Lasso’s 27th foreign trip in 28 months of his reign, meaning he has left the country almost once a month.
For former Vice Chancellor Fernando Yépez Lasso, this state tourism is “ridiculous, expensive, insulting and shameful.”
“What message can a head of state say at the United Nations who prematurely ends his mandate by rejecting and discrediting Lasso? Is he going to Washington to award Bo Derek?” “Complete ignorance of the sad reality of Ecuador!” said the former diplomat on his social networks.
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