President Alberto Fernández and his US counterpart Joseph Biden greeted each other warmly on Wednesday at the reception that the US president gave to the heads of state participating in the IX Summit of the Americas.
Fernández was received together with the first lady Fabiola Yánez, by Biden and the American first lady, Jill Biden.
Later, when the President took out a cell phone from his suit, he showed the American couple a photograph of their son Francisco, in a talk that lasted about two minutes.
When Biden, who professes Catholicism, asked him about his son, the head of state told him that his name is Francisco “in honor of our common friend”, in reference to the Pontiff of the Catholic Church.
Fernández and Biden will have a bilateral meeting in Washington in a month and a half, on a tentative date that could be next July 25, it was officially reported last week.
Both leaders had briefly spoken face to face on October 30, within the framework of the protocol greetings at the G20 Leaders Summit.
On April 22, 2021, the Argentine president spoke, via videoconference, at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate Change, to which he was invited by Biden a month earlier.
On September 9 of that year, Fernández gave a virtual presentation, together with global leaders, at the Forum of the Major Economies on Energy and Climate, also convened by the North American president.
While on December 9, the President also participated by videoconference in the Summit for Democracy, also organized by his American counterpart in Washington.
On July 16 and August 6, 2021, before and after the shipment of 3.5 million doses of Moderna by the United States, Fernández thanked Biden in a letter for this gesture of the US government..
