Sputnik and Europa Press
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 17, 2024, p. 16
Buenos Aires., The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, received yesterday the French president, Emmanuel Macron, with whom he shared a private dinner at the presidential residence in the municipality of Olivos. Macron made a first stop in Buenos Aires, from where he will continue his trip to Brazil, to participate in the G-20 summit next week and then go on an official visit to Chile.
The French president’s office reported that this visit seeks relaunch cooperation of France with Latin America. With Argentina, he also hopes to overcome his differences with Milei, in particular in matters of environment and convince Argentina to continue participating in the international consensusexplained the press office of the Elysee Palace.
Macron and Milei will hold an official meeting on Sunday; The visiting leader will take advantage of his stay in Buenos Aires to pay tribute to the French victims of the military dictatorship. The French delegation is made up of around thirty businessmen, with whom Macron will arrive in Brazil to inform his counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, all your support in the fight against inequality within the framework of the G-20 summit, focusing its actions on governance reform, the fight against poverty and the preservation of the planet.
In Brazil, the French leader will maintain numerous bilateral exchanges with large emerging countries. Afterwards, Macron plans a stopover in Valparaíso and Santiago, where he will meet with the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, to coordinate the relationship in all areas, with special attention to the energy transition, artificial intelligence, as well as cultural and academic exchanges.
Argentine interest in Chinese trade
Meanwhile, President Milei, who will also attend the G-20 summit, will hold a bilateral meeting in Brazil with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, reported Argentine spokesperson Manuel Adorni.
At the end of September, the Argentine president declared that he was pleasantly surprised with the Asian giant, which it considers a trading partner very interesting because they don’t demand anything.
Milei arrived at the Casa Rosada after a campaign marked by an anti-communist message, during which he stated that he would not promote relations with these types of countriesamong which he included Cuba and China itself.
Meanwhile, Lula da Silva claimed yesterday the voice of the streets about the voice of the markets before hundreds of left-wing activists gathered two days before the official G-20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. The leftist president will receive the leaders of the largest world economies at times of high geopolitical tension due to the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.
Lula urges activism
Yesterday, at the closing of the event parallel to the G-20 Social, Lula, a 79-year-old former trade unionist, urged civil society to shout and protest if the leaders do not fulfill the commitments adopted in the G-20 or in any international forum. If we, as leaders, do not assume, you are the ones who have to make the difference. Shout, protest, demand, because otherwise things will not happen.he warned.