“No progress was made, Buenos Aires keeps its position,” Julio Cesar Vera Caceres stated who is president of Paraguay’s National Administration of Navigation and Ports, in contact with radio station 1020 AM.

The main objection of the Commission’s member countries to the technical study presented by Argentina to justify the toll is that it introduces “new criteria that have nothing to do with what is traditionally accepted in the quantification of this type of work,” the specialist and official added.

The press media commented that the Buenos Aires encounter’s results Aires once again stalled negotiations on an issue that keeps bilateral relations tense.

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