President Alberto Fernández concluded his visit to Barbados on Tuesday, the last stop on the tour that also took him to Russia and China, and undertook the return trip to Buenos Aires, official sources reported.
The Aerolineas Argentinas flight took off at 6:36 p.m. (Buenos Aires time) from the Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados and will land at the Ezeiza airport in the early hours of Wednesday.
In this way, the Head of State concludes an international tour that began on February 2 and that, as confirmed in journalistic statements, was marked by the need to promote a “multilateral” vision of the country’s international relations.
On his first stopover, Fernández visited Moscow to hold a bilateral meeting of more than three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
During the meeting held in the Kremlin, the president had affirmed that Argentina is committed to “not being a satellite of anyone” and maintained the need for the country to “open other bridges”, within the framework of multilateralism for which it has been fighting in international forums. from the beginning of his administration.
“Argentina has a very large dependence on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United States. We need to open other bridges, and bet on multilateralism, without being satellites of anyone,” said the president in an interview with the Télam agency.
Subsequently, the delegation traveled to China, where an intense political and diplomatic agenda took place, including a meeting with President Xi Jinping.
Among other points, in Beijing the entry of Argentina into the Strip and the Silk Road was agreed, while in the joint declaration a resounding support was obtained from the People’s Republic of China for the need to reestablish dialogue in the dispute for the sovereignty of the Malvinas and the islands of the South Atlantic.
Finally, the delegation traveled to Barbados, the youngest republic in the world, with the aim of building bridges with the Caribbean nations.
