Argentina’s Foreign Minister Diana Mondino and OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann confirmed that the Argentine government would complete the self-assessment stage of the process to join the organization by the end of 2024.

During a press conference on Friday, Cormann said meetings to discuss Argentina’s invitation to join the organization this week were “constructive” — but cautioned that the years-long membership process would run past President Javier Milei’s current term in office. Cross-party political consensus will be required to make real progress, he said.

The self-assessment process involves sending a memorandum with an evaluation of how Argentina believes its policies and other actions stack up against the organization’s best practices.

That evaluation would then pass through no fewer than 26 OECD committees, in what Cormann called an “extensive and technically rigorous” review process.

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