However, Elena Viyella de Paliza, the president of the CONEP business association, differed on several points from Nicky Fabiancic and the President. In her statement to Diario Libre, Viyella de Paliza said that she did not agree with the UNDP spokesperson’s position on the role of the business community. In her emphatic statement, the CONEP leader said that the ” fundamental, principal and non-negotiable role of the business community” is to create jobs in order to reduce poverty. Fabiancic had said that a business that is only worried about increasing its income and “that does nothing to better the quality of life of the society” adds little value to the society. Looking at things a bit differently, Elena Viyella de Paliza said that “it doesn’t matter how much we business people improve the countryside, if we do not worry about solving the problems of competition and creation of the conditions that will allow a flow of investments.” For her, the most fundamental problems are the structural distortions created by taxes and expensive and short term financing. In her address to the conference, Viyella de Paliza emphasized that the business community did not want incentives, or privileges, just an equal opportunity, and she concluded, “If we want to compete in a globalized world, we need to be able to count on abundant financing and competitive prices.”