Paraguay condemns measures that aggravate the situation on the waterway and annunciates measures at the Mercosur level - .::Agencia IP::.

Asunción, IP Agency.- The Paraguayan chancellery, after a meeting with the National Committee of Paraguay – Paraná waterway, manifested its rejection of the retention of a Paraguayan barge, aggravating the situation in the Paraguay – Paraná waterway, and announced that it would not reserve “any of the possible measures to solve this matter”. In a […]

Asunción, IP Agency.- The Paraguayan chancellery, after a meeting with the National Committee of Paraguay – Paraná waterway, manifested its rejection of the retention of a Paraguayan barge, aggravating the situation in the Paraguay – Paraná waterway, and announced that it would not reserve “any of the possible measures to solve this matter”.

In a declaration made after the meeting of the National Committee, the National Chancellor, Rubén Ramírez, regrets the measures imposed by Argentina that restrict the navigation of the waterway Paraguay – Paraná based on a toll unilaterally established outside the current regulatory provisions.

“We regret that the Central Administration of Ports of the Argentinian Republic is continuing dictating measures as the order of prohibition of the embargo on the departure of a Paraguayan-flagged barge loaded and ready to sail with 30 million litres of fuel,” expressed the National Chancellor.

Ramírez regrated that, even when the same Argentinian legislation established that an embargo could not be carried out when the boat was ready, the Argentine Naval Prefecture arbitrarily and unjustifiably detained it, causing direct damage to the affected company.