Jose Mujica will meet on Monday with Hillary Clinton in the Senate, just hours before taking office. In this bilateral, Mujica invited delegates from the opposition. The elected president will also have bilateral meetings with other leaders of the region coming to the transfer of command, and with Prince Felipe of Asturias.
For the meeting with Hillary Clinton to be held on Monday 11 at the time President of the Senate Chamber, Mujica decided to invite a legislator from each party, Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party, Pedro Bordaberry for the Colorado Party and Ivan Posada for the Independent Party. At that hour Mujica is not yet acting president and is therefore considered that the Legislative Palace was the proper place for the meeting.
With the presence of opposition representatives in his meeting with Clinton, and an in lunch with Uruguayan businessmen and foreigners held at Hotel Conrad, Punta del Este, on February 10^th which was attended by former President Julio Maria Sanguinetti and Lacalle, Mujica is to provide a signal to the world unity of the political system towards the development and growth of the country's elected government sources agreed.
Also Monday, a 14.45 hour, Clinton will meet in Montevideo with Argentina President Cristina Fernandez, said the Argentine ambassador to the United States, Hector Timerman.

Jose Mujica met Wednesday with Latin American Secretary and former chairman of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Uruguayan Enrique Iglesias. Upon leaving the meeting, Mujica noted the difference between credit supply and Uruguay currently had at the outset that the administration of President Tabaré Vázquez. "It is the outlook for 2005, full of uncertainty," he said. Because of this, the president-elect called to be careful and prudent in choosing the source of external funding. "The problem is not getting funding, but that financing is as cheap as possible," he said.
Meanwhile, Iglesias believes that Uruguay will not have trouble managing the maturities of its foreign debt. He said the country "has a very good credit out there" and is "well respected in financial matters," so that "unless you create a very serious problem in the world economic cycle, you will be able to negotiate" and "there are available funding sources”. Tomorrow, Mujica and his future cabinet will meet with a delegation of IDB, including President Luis Alberto Moreno, to define priorities for the next five years and the infrastructure financing.

(www.elpais.com.uy, 25 February 2010)