"Pacific Alliance countries ... I believe have made more progress (towards integration) and are making concrete proposals, such as joint marketing schemes, to be able to export some products as a group to China. But I think there is still much progress left to be made," said Barcena.
In the meantime, regional countries could help promote a more cohesive approach to cooperation by organizing negotiations on concrete proposals in key sectors, such as energy, tourism, mining and others, she said.
Barcena said she was optimistic about future China-CELAC ties, given the progress made within the framework of the initial 2017-2019 cooperation plan signed in 2017 in Beijing.
According to the plan, China aims to achieve 500 billion U.S. dollars of bilateral trade with Latin America and the Caribbean and pump into the region 250 billion dollars of direct investment.
Today "we can say that trade has increased to around 266 billion U.S. dollars. We are halfway to the target that was set out," noted Barcena.
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