Good morning. Uh, thank you for being at this press conference. Hello, hello, hello. In which we are going to announce the upcoming trips of the President of the Republic. Uh, we begin our trip to Venezuela. The President has coordinated a bilateral meeting with the interim president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, where we will address aspects related to that country's institutional process, strengthening the economy, and strengthening the fight against organized transnational crime. It is a meeting of mutual respect. It is a meeting where we will work precisely on aspects that concern the well-being of Venezuelan citizens, and which relates to the beginning of a dialogue that leads us to the reestablishment of diplomatic or consular relations according to the terms set by the President. We are leaving early tomorrow morning, Saturday, with the First Lady of the nation and a small delegation that I am part of, plus the President's support team. We will arrive around 1 p.m., have the meeting, a lunch hosted by President Delcy Rodríguez, and subsequently head to New York. In New York, we have an extraordinarily broad, complete, and dynamic agenda. Uh, I am accompanied by the ministerial advisor to the presidency, who will explain later regarding two very important events called Paraguay Day. The first is with Bank of America, the second is with JP Morgan, and on that occasion, there will be a presentation to the private sector on the process of strengthening our economy, Paraguay as a host for investments, and other aspects that Minister Maluf will explain in more detail. We are going to have a series of bilateral meetings with heads of state. We will have, for example, the Urupaol meeting at the level of heads of state. We will have multilateral meetings with what is called the Shield of the Americas, which is a plurilateral meeting where there will be several heads of state, and it will be coordinated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. We will also have the Peace Council meeting; obviously, the President's speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and a series of bilateral meetings with the private sector, which will allow for a broad agenda. And the First Lady is making a presentation of the traditional "Cuña Paraguaya" exhibition, which has to do with the promotion of Paraguayan fashion, of the*ñandutí*, as substantive elements. She will also meet with the First Lady of the United States, and the President, obviously, will be at the greeting of President Trump to the heads of state participating in this General Assembly. So, it is an opportunity where we will once again have our country at the highest standards of projection and international integration. Uh, Rodrigo, if you would like to explain the meetings, please. Well, thank you very much, Chancellor, and thank you especially for letting us work together on the investment attraction agenda that Paraguay has been following in a disciplined and continuous manner since the beginning of this government. The Government of Paraguay has a strategy, which is Paraguay 2X, seeking to double the national economy by 2035; and spaces like the one New York offers, where capitalism wakes up and goes to sleep, where the political agenda meets the economic agenda, is the ideal space to position the Paraguay Invest Forum, which will take place on Monday and Tuesday, September 21st and 22nd. The first day will be at the Bank of America headquarters. The second day will be at the JP Morgan headquarters. Both banks are strategic partners of Paraguay regarding our sovereign bond issuances and today they closely follow the growth agenda of the national economy: in the energy sector, the forestry sector, the public infrastructure sector, and, of course, in this sector that continues to grow in the country, which is food production for the world, where we are seeking the industrialization of all primary production so that it can indeed be exported to the world. So, this agenda that I would say we have traditionally been doing once every semester, accompanied by 60 business leaders from all sectors of the national economy. Last year we were in Finland. Uh, this first semester it was Taiwan's turn. We are working on what will happen next week, but we have been working with the economic team and the Chancellery on what the agenda for the first and second semesters of next year will be. We as a government want to continue sowing. What we are seeing today is the growth of direct foreign investment attraction. We broke the 1 billion dollar barrier in foreign investment last year. We are sure that we are on the right path, and that is to sow, to continue sowing semester after semester at events of this scale, because Paraguay needs the economic growth that the government of Paraguay is seeking. Within the framework of these two days, where the agenda will be focused on the country's economic and commercial development, we will also have related conferences on something that is, I would say, at a high-tension moment: artificial intelligence. The Minister of MITIC will be joining us for an agenda loaded with governance topics, because Paraguay wants to bet on that future, and part of the 2X plan is for Paraguay to host AI data centers. Therefore, it is a very packed agenda in that regard. We are also one investment grade away from achieving the triple crown of investment grade. Rating agencies are expecting us, along with the Minister of Economy, for an agenda filled with meetings with sovereign debt holders and rating agencies, because we are sure that Paraguay is on track to achieve that additional investment grade that will give us the final recognition we expect. On the other hand, the Paraguayan government's housing program requires more financing , and part of the agenda will be dedicated to continuing the search for funding for what will be Che Tapýi 3.0 , a program this government has been pushing very strongly and with which we are sure we will deliver many more homes, not only in this term but in the following ones; because that is what it is all about: continuing to sow and continuing to seek foreign financing. It is about being able to continue with this legacy agenda of the government of Paraguay. Thank you very much, Minister Maluf. I am attentive to questions if there are any. Yes, good morning, Minister. I would like to ask you what the projection is regarding relations with Venezuela, given that these relations were broken a few months ago, and if there is a possibility of progress regarding the debt with PDVSA and also projections regarding fuel purchases from that country. That is one thing. Secondly, I ask you what relationship the government has with Andy Rivas, since this partner of Fernando Cerimedo has been seen at several official events, even though he is not a public official . Well, in the first place, there is a dialogue with the interim president. She has already had the opportunity to dialogue with our president. A group of presidents from our hemisphere has promoted this dialogue on behalf of the Republic of Paraguay through President Santiago Peña with his counterpart. I have been in dialogue with my counterpart to understand how the institutional strengthening of that country is developing. We will have the opportunity to talk about every aspect of a bilateral relationship that is just beginning. No, we are not going to establish diplomatic relations on this occasion just yet. You know that we have an ambassador designated as concurrent from Panama to uh Venezuela. And uh Ambassador Enrique Jara is the one who keeps us uh informed regarding this situation. Uh, secondly, uh regarding the purchase or not of fuel from uh Venezuela, the issues linked to Petropar's debt with PDVSA are aspects that are on uh our agenda. We are also uh looking for an opportunity for uh there to be a closer approach on key aspects: economic and commercial development, the well-being of Venezuelans as a preponderant aspect of an agenda that really interests us, issues related to economic development, and the fight against organized transnational crime. You know that the Tren de Aragua originated in Venezuela. Uh, we are going to talk about migration issues in a relationship of mutual respect and, above all, to begin a path that leads us to a formalization of relations when the conditions are met. Regarding Mr. Andrés Rivas, he is a personal friend of mine; he has no contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or with me of any nature. We have met him in a series of international meetings where he was invited just as we were, and in no way does that represent a contractual bond of any nature, neither personally nor institutionally for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Uh, Minister, does Paraguay now de facto recognize the Delcy Rodríguez administration as a legitimate interlocutor? And also, are we heading toward reopening the consulate and the embassy in that country? I cannot affirm that yet. It will be a first approach, it will be the first meeting of the President of the Republic uh with the interim president of Venezuela. Uh, we are talking in a constructive manner, and the formalization of those relations will obviously uh depend on the results of this meeting. Minister, Juan Pablo from Agence France-Presse. We would appreciate it if you could expand a bit more on the status of Paraguay's debt with the Venezuelan oil company. That debt is currently in the, in the scope of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, where there is a difference regarding what the government of Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro claimed and what we have recorded at Petropar as debt to this company. The, the differential amount of that debt is linked to interest rates that are applied outside of the trade agreement that exists with that country. Thank you very much, colleagues. In this way, we shared the press conference of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and also the Minister Advisor to the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic. So both authorities shared