In the Presidential Declaration on the fight against transnational organized crime, which was released in Asunción, the leaders of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, the Argentine foreign minister and representatives of the bloc's member states called for collaboration in unifying regional security-related policies. teleSUR
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00:00The heads of state members of MERCOSUR and Bolivia agreed this Monday on the need for
00:04the organization to function as a platform for market access and to deepen trade exchanges
00:08both regionally and extra-regionally.
00:11In a statement, MERCOSUR member states expressed their interest in transforming the regional
00:15bloc into a competitive platform for its international insertion, an efficient instrument to expand
00:20trade with third countries or groups of countries both in the region and in the rest of the
00:24world, and to generate more dynamic trade flows.
00:27They also expressed their interest in deepening trade agreements with Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
00:32and Peru, as well as resuming contacts with El Salvador, Dominica and Panama in order
00:37to reach trade agreements with MERCOSUR.