The presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela on Monday decided to expand their strategic alliance to the transport sector and took the first steps toward the development of a joint airline and a train that connects the three countries, "something that today seems to be a utopia," reported the Argentinean Ambassador.

"There is as new issue in the agenda that I think is most important, the issue of transport (…) the idea of forging an alliance with the Venezuelan state airline and Brazil's flagship airline, so that we can have our Southern Airline," Alicia Castro, Argentinean ambassador to Venezuela, told reporters after a meeting among presidents Cristina Fernández, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Hugo Chávez.

"We are also working on a dream that today seems to be a utopia, but one day would be a reality, the Southern Express, a train that connects Caracas with Buenos Aires'," she added.

Meanwhile, Argentinean Foreign Affairs Minister, Jorge Taiana, told reporters that the presidents would meet again on September 6 in Pernambuco, Brazil, in order to deal with "energy and fertilizers projects."

"It was a very good, positive meeting," he added.