ESO Director General meets the President of Chile

On 6 July 2010 the Chilean President Sebastián Piñera received the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, at the Palacio La Moneda, in Santiago, to discuss the selection of Cerro Armazones in Chile, as the home of the future 40-metre-class European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). From left to right: the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw; the Chilean President, Sebastián Piñera; the ESO Representative in Chile, Massimo Tarenghi; the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alfredo Moreno.