Natasha Niebieskikwiat
02/17/2020 - 14:28
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Alicia Castro wants to "refound" relations with Russia, where she will soon travel as an ambassador for Argentina. It is a political position that came through his ties with Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
In this "re-foundation", Castro has just proposed an alliance with the Russians in the South Atlantic, which includes Antarctica, the Falkland Islands and the other islands in sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom. A strategy that was already sought in the past and did not work.
"I hope to rebuild the relationship with Russia, practically frozen during the years of Mauricio Macri. I remember as an example a ridiculous video where the former president was talking to Vladimir Putin about football. There is everything to do, it is a relationship that has extraordinary potential in terms politicians, of parliamentary and cultural diplomacy, ”Castro began by saying extensive report with Page 12 about the weekend.
Former flight attendant, former militant of his guild, former ambassador to Venezuela and Britain during Kirchnerism, Castro recalled that Russia is a strategic partner that works for a multipolar world; and on that train he said he wanted to work for Argentina to join the BRICS group (Brazil, India, China and South Africa), which seems more difficult now because of the smaller size of the national economy.
And speaking of the sectors in which the Russians are looking for partners (intervene with wagons, locomotives and helicopters in gas and oil production, and the peaceful nuclear sector), he said: "I am particularly interested in the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands where Russia could cooperate in establishing an Antarctic logistics hub . It could cooperate with the port, in a geostrategic zone. Russia is very aware of the potential of the Argentine Sea and Antarctica. "
Shortly after Castro defined his objectives, the Russian ambassador to Argentina, Dmitry Feoktistov, traveled to Ushuaia last Friday to receive Russian sailboats that arrived at the port. He was in the monument to the fallen in the war for the Falklands of 1982 , of that city. And manifesting "moved" sentenced: "The time of colonialism happened and the English must return the Islands to Argentina."
It is not the first time that a Russian official is in solidarity with Argentina in the historic national claim for Malvinas. The point is that Moscow has its own strategy behind it and is to compare the situation of Malvinas with that of Crimea , the pro-Russian territory claimed by Ukraine since Moscow annexed it to Russia in 2014. That cost Moscow harsh penalties from Europe and the United States.
At the time, under the government of Cristina Kirchner, various Russian officials compared the Falklands and Crimea, when in reality the situation is not the same.
Russia and Britain are historically rivals , but the Russians also flirted heavily with Argentina by offering to sell planes and other military equipment to patrol the South Atlantic. This not only never advanced but it also twitched the military moods in London in a context of strong tensions with the administration of Cristina, who sent Castro as ambassador.
The British imposed an arms and equipment embargo on Argentina in 2012, which continued in 1982.
The now appointed ambassador to Moscow made her report with Page 12 shortly after meeting alone with President Alberto Fernández. But in the Foreign Ministry their autonomy did not fall well when they also declared, for example, that the government of Jair Bolsonaro was the result of a "coup d'etat" and that Brazil integrates the group of countries into the "service of the United States".
