Natasha Niebieskikwiat
05/23/2021 11:42 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/23/2021 11:47 PM
Felipe Solá arrived in Quito this Sunday to represent the country in the presidential inauguration of
Guillermo Lasso
.
In the evening he met with the delegation sent by President Joe Biden.
In Solá's conversation
With the United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Linda Thomas-Greenfield
-head of Biden's entourage- and with the main adviser of the White House, and of the National Security Council,
Juan González
, different topics were reviewed: vaccines against Covid-19, the
climate summit
that the Argentine government wants to organize in Buenos Aires when it decompresses the severity of the
health
crisis
.
And when the Americans sought to delve deeper into Argentine thinking about the Chavista regime and the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, the Argentine minister
asked for "a gesture of relaxation"
from the United States.
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, greets Foreign Minister Felipe Solá in Ecuador
Clarín
learned
that in that dialogue, what the Argentines asked was that the United States also
create conditions for the Venezuelan opposition to participate
and not reject the next regional elections.
Recently, the government sought to bring Americans closer to the government of Luis Arce, of Bolivia, which worked quite well, according to
Clarín
from various sources.
As for Venezuela, the situation is more complex due to the always different statements of Alberto Fernández.
He recently said that the "human rights problem" in the Caribbean country has been "disappearing", which generated strong criticism from the opposition to the Nicolás Maduro regime.
On Sunday night the details of the conversation were unknown, in which Solá, Thomas Greenfield and González spoke about a
climate summit
organized by the US but wants to arm Argentina in this country.
And he also reiterated Argentina's intention to acquire the vaccines that Biden said he was going to release.
The american president
announced that his country will
share
with the world 20 million vaccines against Covid 19 in the coming weeks.
They will be from Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson, which the Argentine government failed to buy.
This is in addition to Biden's previous commitment to share
60 million doses of the
AstraZeneca
vaccine
, not authorized for use on US soil.
Solá also thanked them for releasing the doses that are arriving in the country this Monday from Albuquerque, Mexico, as part of the production agreement between Argentina and Mexico.
And there was talk of a possible meeting of the Argentine Foreign Minister with the Secretary of State,
Antony Blinken
, in Washington.
Solá traveled to Ecuador after Alberto Fernández decided not to attend the ceremony, in which eight leaders did promise to be, including Jair Bolsonaro, from Brazil;
and Luis Lacalle Pou, from Uruguay, with whom the president
today has various pending problems.
The chancellor traveled with
Christian Asinelli
, the undersecretary of International Financial Relations of the Presidency, a position under the orbit of the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs, managed by Gustavo Béliz.
His presence has an explanation: the Government wants to nominate him for the presidency of the CAF (Development Bank of Latin America), the former Andean Development Corporation, after the departure of the Peruvian
Luis Carranza Ugarte
, he denounces abuse and workplace harassment.
Visit to Argentina
González came to Argentina last April in a gesture of interest from the Biden administration to meet the Fernández administration and find out what they thought.
He met with a good part of the Cabinet.
But he could not do it in person with Alberto F. although it was to the Olivos residence where the president, confined by his still vaccinated coronavirus picture, received him by videoconference from another room.
With the Democrats most concerned about China and Russia, González managed to wrest a commitment from Fernández, at least verbal, that there would be no other "foreign base" in Argentina, where the Chinese have already raised the Neuquén base that they are using for all their plans. of spatial expansion and worries Washington.
"We want to establish rules of the game with Argentina," González told
Clarín
at the time in an interview with Argentine media.
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