President Alberto Fernández was satisfied that the Argentine government was able to call for an end to the war in Ukraine before the UN General Assembly and highlighted the boost given to the Vaca Muerta deposit through the announcement of a bill that will seek to provide security to companies.
This was stated by the president at the end of the three-day tour he had in the United States to participate in the 77th General Assembly of the organization, an occasion that he also took the opportunity to meet with the head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, first, and to move to Houston, later, to exhibit before oil businessmen.
“We were able to make progress on things that concern us and bring the perspective of the Argentine government to the UN on how we see the present in Argentina and the world,” said the president when holding a dialogue with the journalists who followed the tour, including Télam.
Fernández stressed that with Georgieva, with whom he had a “very good meeting” on Monday at the Argentine Consulate in New York, he was able to “assess the effects that the war is bringing not only to the world economy but specifically to the Argentine economy.”
The mandatary He reported that he told Georgieva that the “scenario has changed substantially” since the war in Ukraine, a situation that, he said, the head of the IMF “understands perfectly well.”.
“We raised the concern again and we proposed a roadmap to see how we can be part of the solution to this problem that, if we do not get involved, we fear it will last a long time”
“I am not saying anything new because she has said it before me, the scenario has changed a lot and things have to be reviewed,” said the president, who insisted that he raised the issue of Special Drawing Rights with the agency’s director. (DEG) of the Resilience Fund that has been created at our request”.
He also expressed the need for Argentina “to be included in that distribution of SDRs”, in addition to the demand for the elimination of surcharges, a point that Georgieva said she will take to the next IMF board meeting.
“It was a very good talk, very constructive, and I also believe that we have a common view of the effects of the war on the world economy,” said the President.
The president also highlighted the meeting he held on Tuesday night with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, who specially invited him to a dinner at the French Consulate in New York, along with 7 other heads of state, to discuss energy issues.
“We were able to make progress on things that concern us and bring the perspective of the Argentine government to the UN on how we see the present in Argentina and the world”
“We have been working with Macron for a long time, worried about the effects of the consequences of the war, and we were able to continue the work that we began in Paris and continue in the G7,” Fernández reviewed.
The Argentine President emphasized that “We are all convinced of the need to end the war that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine as soon as possible and the need to restore peace”.
Fernández maintained that the war in Ukraine “far exceeds the region and what appear to be conflicting sectors,” noting that in the southern hemisphere “there are enormous losses” as a result of the armed conflict and that “they have to do with hunger “.
The objective of the Argentine president is that the southern hemisphere is “heard and is part of a table that finds a solution to the conflict.”
“We raised the concern again and we proposed a roadmap to see how we can be participants in the solution to this problem that, if we do not get involved, we fear will last a long time,” he added.
Along these lines, Fernández said that he “values” Macron’s gesture and quoted a phrase that was spoken to him during the conference he gave on Monday at The New School university: “Either you are at the table or you are the menu.”
“We want to be at the table,” he closed.
About his activity in Houstonwhere he spoke before some thirty businessmen from the sector in search of investment, Fernández stressed that he was able to present the Government’s position of “converting” the Vaca Muerta oil field into “State policy” and “taking advantage of the potential that this area has for Argentine economy.
