Asunción’s international airport Silvio Pettirossi needs to be concessioned, Paraguay’s finance minister, Manuel Ferreira, has said.

However, Ferreira also told local press that a concession law must be approved to make rules clear.

His words come a few weeks after public works and communications minister, Salyn Buzarquis, pledged that the government would draft a concession bill by October.

Congress already tried to concession the airport in 2011, but then-president Fernando Lugo vetoed the bill and the process stalled.