“This is a process that will continue, regardless of what the TPP deposit is,” said Foreign Minister Urrejola.
Next week our country will make the deposit of the TTP11, as confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Relations, Antonia Urrejola.
This was stated by the chancellor in the True Lies program where he detailed the formal act, where Chile informs the Secretariat of the Treaty, in this case New Zealand, that the agreement was ratified by Congress.
After sending the formal note, in two months, the TTPP11 enters into force in our country, indicated Urrejola, highlighting in passing the decrease in “noise” generated by the discussion of the agreement.
“What I do is send a formal note to the TPP secretariat, which is New Zealand, where we communicate that it has been ratified by Congress and then they come two months before it enters into force,” he said.
In this sense, he added that the different ministries are working on the implementation of the TPP11 in the different spheres it covers, after the Senate ratified it last October.
Ahumada will continue negotiating side letters
At the same time, Urrejola told the La Red program that the Undersecretary of International Economic Relations, José Miguel Ahumada, continue working on the side letters or bilateral letters.
“The undersecretary, José Miguel Ahumada, has been working with the countries that are part of the TPP, to see how we can do this with bilateral letters or side letters, that is still in talks,” he said.
“There are two levels of talks, one is the side letters, which are bilateral agreements where we say ‘let’s not apply the dispute resolution mechanism within the TPP, but rather that we both apply the mechanism that we have within the Bilateral Treaty’ or we discuss a special mechanism between the two of us,” he explained.
“But we have also been talking with the countries that are part of the TPP to discuss how to improve the dispute resolution mechanism within the TPP,” added Urrejola.
“This is a process that will continue, regardless of what the TPP deposit is,” he said.