Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived in Argentina this Sunday to participate tomorrow in the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).
Díaz-Canel was received at the Ministro Pistarini airport (Ezeiza) by Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Pablo Tettamanti, according to a report from the Cuban News Agency (acn).
?| The President of the Republic of #Cuba ??, @DiazCanelBholds a meeting with economic, business and tourism sectors in Buenos Aires, #Argentina ??. pic.twitter.com/eBoymxvNUW
— Cuban Foreign Ministry (@CubaMINREX) January 23, 2023
From his Twitter account, Díaz-Canel stressed that he had arrived in a nation “to which we are united by close ties of friendship, solidarity and cooperation.”
As reported by the Cuban Foreign Ministry from its social networks, one of Díaz-Canel’s first activities on Monday was a meeting “with economic, business and tourism sectors in Buenos Aires.”
Celac emerged in 2011 and in its years of creation, six summits of heads of state and government have been held; the first in Chile, in January 2013 and the last in Mexico, in September 2021.
Argentina ends its pro tempore presidency there, assumed in January 2022, after the VI Summit held in Mexico in September 2021 ended without consensus.
However, it could continue for a few months if the only candidacy presented, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, does not achieve sufficient support, he points out. efe in a report.
The opposition to Argentine President Alberto Fernández has openly questioned the invitation to the conclave of Nicolás Maduro, Daniel Ortega and Díaz-Canel, for what they consider “serious attacks on human rights” in their countries.
Precisely Ortega will be one of the great absentees, together with the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, at a Summit that, for the first time in its history, will have representatives of the 33 member countries, at least 15 of them heads of State or Government .
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is already in Buenos Aires, who participated this Monday in a floral offering at the monument to the liberator José de San Martín. He is the only president who participated in the founding of Celac.
Cuba and Argentina established diplomatic relations on May 12, 1909, interrupted in 1962, when all the countries of the continent -with the exception of Mexico- broke their ties with the Greater Antilles in Revolution.
On May 28, 1973, those ties were resumed, highlights the page of the Presence of the island.
The delegation accompanying Díaz-Canel is made up of Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, and the Cuban ambassador to Argentina, Pedro Pablo Prada.
