01-17-06,10:39am

Buenos Aires, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) Bolivia´s President-elect Evo Morales is arriving in Argentina Tuesday to tackle various cooperation issues with President Nestor Kirchner.

During his short stay, Morales will be received by Kirchner at the Executive headquarters to talk about the improvement of prices and quantity of the natural gas supplied by Bolivia to Argentina.

Bolivia sits on South America´s second-largest natural gas reserves, after Venezuela, and Brazil and Argentina are among its main receptors.

This is the last stop of the Movement towards Socialism leader´s journey before taking office January 22.



After sweeping to victory in the December 18 elections with 54 percent of the vote, the Bolivian progressive kicked off a globe-trotting tour in Cuba, where he signed with President Fidel Castro several cooperation accords.

Havana will offer Bolivia 5,000 scholarships for future doctors and specialists and provide the setting up of a non-profit Cuban-Bolivian entity to guarantee free, high quality eye surgery to poor Bolivians, plus high-tech equipment and experts.

Meanwhile, Venezuela offered Bolivia 30 million dollars for social projects and 150,000 barrels of oil for agricultural products.

From January 3-13, he visited Spain, France, Holland, South Africa, China and Brazil, where he met with those nations´ leaders and political figures, and received their words of political-economic support.