President Alberto Fernandez held this Saturday morning in Paris a meeting with the mayor of the French capital, Anne Hidalgo, in the third day of tour for that European country.
In one of his last official activities in France, where he arrived last Thursday to participate in the Paris Forum for Peaceinvited by his peer Emmanuel Macron, Fernández also plans to meet this Saturday with Argentine residents in Parisat the headquarters of the Argentine embassy in this city.
Meanwhile, on Sunday he will leave for the island of balinesein Indonesia, where from next Tuesday he will take part in the G20 leaders summit.
In this framework, it will also maintain bilateral meetings with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and another with the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva.
During his time in Paris, Fernández had several meetings with Macronexhibited on Friday at the Brongniart Palace in the Panel “Universalism challenged by the War in Ukraine” of the Paris Forum for Peace, together with the French president; and participated in the so-called “Meeting on Venezuela” also with Macron, and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, in a call for dialogue between the Government and the opposition in the Latin American country.
By exposing in Forum for PeaceFernández affirmed that, before the war in Ukraine, “We cannot sit still without proposing a negotiation to achieve peace” and maintained that Latin America “should be part” of that conversation, and warned that “Russia’s invasion of Ukrainian lands has not measured the consequences that this action would bring to the whole world.”
Along these lines, he referred that “we talked about it many times with the president of France” and expanded: “We are not making an ideological statement, this is not the discussion between the West and the East or between Russia and the United States or Russia and NATO. Here Missiles fly in the North, but famine develops in the South”.
Then in the meeting for Venezuelathe Argentine president considered that “the solution” to the Venezuelan crisis “must be reached” by the citizens of that country through “comprehensive negotiations”, in which “all the parties involved” participate and “without external pressure or conditioning”.
“The solution to the Venezuelan crisis must be achieved by the Venezuelans themselves. And the international community has a duty: to collaborate to facilitate dialogue between the parties,” said the Argentine head of state in a thread published on his network account. social Twitter after the meeting.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela agreed this Saturday to return to political dialogue, after the support of Fernández, Macron and Petro, in a meeting that the leaders held with representatives of the ruling party and the opposition of the Caribbean nation in Paris.
The meeting was held for about 45 minutes in one of the halls of the Brongniart Palace, also known as the Paris Stock Exchange, which will host the 5th Paris Peace Forum on Friday and this Saturday.
