Jakarta_ Chile's aspirations to consolidate its already promising ties with Asia Pacific will now find new spaces in Indonesia and China, with the visit of President Michelle Bachelet, Prensa Latina reports.

Accompanied by parliamentarians, businessmen and his foreign minister, Heraldo Muñoz, Bachelet will fulfill in this capital a tight agenda that includes a meeting with her counterpart Joko Widodo, and another approach with the Asean.

The Asean, founded in 1967 and made up of Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, included Chile last year under the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation.

The reflectors of the dialogue between Bachelet and Widodo will be the deepening of cooperation and exchange agreements, with the possibility of a visa exemption arrangement for diplomatic and service passports, as well as the wishes of both parts to complete the Commercial Cooperation Agreement (CEPA).

But beyond that, the views of Chile, along with Argentina, the only Latin American guests to the First Conference of the Strip and the Beijing Route, are deposited in the Asian giant, with which they have a relevant Free Trade Agreement.

For the third consecutive year, the economic experts of the South American nation prepare the Chileweek, a promotional activity that will touch several Chinese cities in August and September to come.

A no less important aspect, is the preponderance that acquires the Chilean wine in China, that became since 2016 in the main importer of the drink, as well as of fruits.

Trade between Chile and China amounted to 31,474 million dollars last year.

The dignitary will be with the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, the director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, and the presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In addition, the Philippine head of government, Rodrigo Duterte, the leaders of Belarus and Kazakhstan, Alexander Lukashenko and Nursultan Nazarbayev, respectively, and the Argentine president, Mauricio Macri.

The essential idea of themeetingr, promoted by Xi Jinping himself, is the drawing of a new Silk Road, with connectivity at all levels in its projections.

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