The Argentine Government is currently preparing the message that the President Alberto Fernández will offer on Tuesday, September 20, before the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), in New York City, and which will focus on the consequences of the war in Ukraine and the renewal of the claim to sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands.
so what anticipated in recent days the spokeswoman for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, who pointed out that, in his speech before the concert of nations, the president “is going to refer to the international situation, just as he has been doing in recent times”, in reference to the armed conflict.
“He will talk about how the war in Ukraine affects the countries in the south of the world in terms of energy and inflation. It is a conflict that has repercussions throughout the world,” Cerruti said at the usual press conference offered on Thursdays at the Casa Rosada .
The spokeswoman also indicated that “of course” Fernandez will also “reclaim sovereignty in the Malvinas”, as she had stated in the bilateral meeting held with end of June with the then first UK Minister Boris Johnson during the G7 Summit in Germany.
On that occasion, Fernández told the prime minister that there was no possibility of bilateral progress without the negotiation for the archipelago.
The official trip will be a new opportunity for the president to travel to the United States after the president of that country, Joe Biden, suspended the bilateral meeting on July 22 last, which was scheduled for the 26th of that month in Washington.
In that occasion, Biden had to suspend his agenda for having contracted coronavirus and carried out his tasks under the modality of isolation.
The Argentine ambassador to the United States, Jorge Argüelloratified in statements to Télam that The bilateral meeting between Joe Biden and Alberto Fernández is “confirmed, only the day and time are missing.”
Argüello, who these days is accompanying the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, on his tour of the United States, is in parallel working on finalizing the details of the “intense agenda” that Fernández will have, first in New York on Tuesday 20 and then in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday 21.
“Let’s not rule out that the President will travel to the United States twice in the coming weeks.: the first for the inauguration of the United Nations General Assembly. He’s going to do a series of events in New York for one day, and then we’re going to move to houston where the president will offer a mega-presentation on the potential and growth of Vaca Muerta before what is called in Texas the oil family, 60 companies many of which already invest in Argentina,” the ambassador specified.
Massa agenda in Houston
On Friday, Massa visited the city of Houston -the oil heartland of the United States-, where he maintained meetings with businessmen from the sector to whom he presented Argentina’s energy plan and new investments in exploration, production and global energy were analyzed.
The Economy Minister began a tour of the United States last Tuesday to hold a technical appointment with the IMF and meet next Monday with the agency’s director, Kristalina Georgieva.
In the different meetings that Massa held, US officials showed the US government’s willingness to collaborate with Argentina in the IMF, and the official thanked the gesture of support for the ongoing negotiations.
Last year, on the occasion of delivering his message virtually to the 76th UN General Assembly, Fernández had described the loan granted by the IMF to Argentina in 2018 during the government of Mauricio Macri as “toxic” and argued that this administration had applied a “deudicide” in the country.
The president stated on that occasion that the resources approved by the IMF to Argentina, which were 57 billion dollars, were equivalent to “everything that the agency disbursed in the years of the pandemic destined for 85 countries in the world.”
