Natasha Niebieskikwiat
08/09/2021 4:52 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/09/2021 4:52 PM
"We believe that Argentina is a country that can talk to governments of
both left and right and can play an important role in promoting the defense of democratic values ,
" he said Monday afternoon to
Clarin
Juan Gonzalez, Adviser on United States National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. He also referred in another question from another medium to the type of support that the United States will give this country in its negotiations with the IMF for foreign debt.
González gave a telephone press conference to which
Clarín
and other media
were invited
and in which Sullivan was initially going to speak about his meeting last Friday with President Alberto Fernández and other government ministers.
He also spoke about his meeting with Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia on Thursday.
After referring to his time in Brasilia, this newspaper asked González if he had asked President Fernández the need to press for the democratization of the region, especially in the face of the crises in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, where Argentina differs from Washington. and the OAS and refuses to condemn those regimes.
"On the issue of democracy and human rights in the region, Jake Sullivan mentioned what he did in Brazil, in Argentina, in conversations with President Fernández, with Foreign Minister (Felipe) Solá" González began by saying, and then pointed out " We have to break away from the mentality of left and right when it comes to promoting democratic values and we really need to focus on a conversation about democracies in countries that are not democracies. If we want to make sure that is the region, we maintain this international consensus to pro-democracy, "he added.
"So, you know, we underline the importance of breaking with this ideological problem that exists in the region, both on the left and on the right with regard to democratic values. And that, you know, we raised the issue of Cuba, Nicaragua. Venezuela is one where, you know, you are urging all countries, not just Argentina, to defend those given ideals, in particular the history that Argentina has suffered in the past. " Then he said that
"there was a very constructive conversation with the Argentines, a willingness to find areas of common ground and an interest in them being and being useful.
I mean, I think they made it clear that they are not always going to agree with us on issues of focus, but that we are going to continue to have a very open and fluid dialogue when it comes to these issues. "
"And, you know, we believe that Argentina is a country that can speak to governments of both the left and the right and can play an important role in promoting the defense of democratic values, particularly, I think that when they look at Nicaragua, they have been, you know, a movement, a kind of concertation movement towards authoritarianism in the run-up to the November elections. "
When asked if his government asked the Argentine government to have a role in the dialogue table that is opening these days in Mexico between the Nicolás Maduro regime and the opposition, he said: "I believe that our perspective, which has been articulated between the States United, Canada and the European Union, is that the international community will continue to press for free and fair elections. And we will do everything possible to pressure the regime to take concrete steps in that direction. "
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