President Alberto Fernandezwho arrived in the United States this Sunday to participate in the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations Organization (UN), will meet this Monday with the managing director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgievwhile preparing the speech that will be delivered on Tuesday in the plenary of countries that is being held in New York.
As soon as he set foot on US soil, around 9:30 local time (8:30 in Argentina), the president went to the Park Hyatt hotel in Manhattan to polish Tuesday’s message, which will include a call for peace in Ukraine and a rejection of the attack suffered earlier this month by Vice President Cristina Fernández.
In this task he was assisted by the chancellor santiago cafieroalong with whom Fernández defined the terms of the speech that he will give on Tuesday before the concert of nations, according to Télam’s knowledge of official sources.
But before attending the UN, the President will meet this Monday at 11:30 (local time) at the Argentine consulate in New York with the director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgievwith whom he has not had a personal date for a little less than a year, when the two had a meeting last October during the G20 summit in Rome.
The meeting with Georgieva will take place after the IMF spokesman, Gerry Riceratified last week that “in the next few days” the technical evaluation of the body of the second revision of the agreement with Argentina will be announced.
In any case, the expectation is good in both actors from the meeting that the Minister of Economy, Serge Massaheld last Monday in Washington with Georgieva.
Precisely, after that meeting, Georgieva indicated that “it is a good sign that the entire government is focused on implementing the program” agreed with the IMF to refinance the debt contracted by the administration of Mauricio Macri.
He also pointed out that Massa “acknowledged, and so did I, with seriousness, that the problems facing Argentina are very significant.”
Fernández arrived in the United States this Sunday to participate for the first time in person at the UN summit, because in the previous two years he had to do so virtually due to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The official delegation is completed with the secretary general of the Presidency, Julius Vitobello; the spokeswoman Gabriela Ceruti; the ministers of education and security, Jaime Perczyk Y Hannibal Fernandezrespectively, and the first lady, Fabiola Yanez.
Although there is a notable absence of leaders because many moved to the United Kingdom to participate in the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, this did not prevent the daily life of New York from being altered by the presence of the different delegations, to such an extent that in the city they refer to this time as “the UN days”.
In his message to the General Assembly, Alberto Fernández will call for “dialogue” for Ukraine, will insist on the integration of Argentina in supply value chains and will also refer to the attempted assassination suffered by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on September 1st, with an additional note on the 40 years of Argentine democracy that will be fulfilled in 2023.
Also, as is tradition, it will make a claim of Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and will renew the request for justice for the attack on the AMIA.
Before that, Fernández plans to participate this Monday at 3:00 p.m. at the Sofitel Hotel during the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America week, invited as Argentine president and in his capacity as pro tempore president of Celac.
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At 5:30 p.m., meanwhile, he will hold a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa.
At 7:00 p.m., there will also be an exhibition on the ESMA Memory Museum at the Consulate headquarters in New York as part of the application of that site as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
On Tuesday, meanwhile, the President will hold a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, at 10 a.m., and at 12 p.m. he will give a presentation at The New School, located in Lower Manhattan, with the premise “Facing global challenges: a Latin American perspective”
That same day the President will meet with his peers from the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchezand from France, Emmanuel Macron.
The president will have lunch at 2 pm at the Intercontinental Hotel with Sánchez, at the initiative of the Spanish president, in a meeting in which the topic of food security will be addressed.
In the evening, Fernández will join a dinner sponsored by Macron, which will deal with energy and food.
On Wednesday the 21st, the delegation will travel to Houston, Texas, where the President will offer at 12:45 a “mega-presentation on the potential and growth” of the Vaca Muerta oil field before some 80 companies in the sector that are not in the country.
For his part, Cafiero will hold meetings that day with his peers from the United States, Antony Blinken; from China, Wang Yi, and from India, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, at the “The right to be me” event, and at the Celac-China and Celac-India meetings, respectively.
Aníbal Fernández displays his own agenda in the US and will meet with security forces
The Minister of Security of the Nation, Aníbal Fernández, will display its own agenda in the United States as part of the official delegation that traveled to that country for the UN summit and will meet this Monday with local security forces and intelligence agencies.
The official, who accompanies the President in his attendance at the 77th UN General Assembly, will resume through different meetings with intelligence and security agencies and forces the roadmap of his portfolio, which had been postponed after the attack suffered on September 1 by Vice President Cristina Fernández.
Thus, the Minister of Security will have meetings on Monday with authorities from the New York Police, the International Bureau of Anti-Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL), the FBI and the DEA.
“We have managed to open up a lot of play in terms of information exchange. Today, without information exchange, there is no security force“, highlighted the official in statements to the media that follow the delegation, including Télam.
Fernandez warned that “thinking that by oneself one can dominate the situation in a country is unthinkable, especially with drug trafficking that has tripled in the Americas.”
On the other hand, regarding the case that investigates the attempted assassination of the Vice President, the official pointed out that “the court has all the elements and we are working hard to assist it with a lot of information, because there is a lot of information to process.”
“A lot is being processed, a lot that is allowing us to assimilate and work on certain lines of research that already show complete graphs,” he stressed.
Fernández maintained that “the most important thing in this case is always knowing where the money comes from,” citing a “very strong” document from Homeland Security, the United States Department of Homeland Security, which “points out ‘Follow the money’ , follow the guide”,
“It is much easier when you conquer where the money is than to remove the substance. That is to say, you do not have to stay in who came and not confiscate the substance. But the biggest problem is being able to remove the money. We believe that it is imperative to search money,” he said about the financing of the Vice President’s aggressors.
