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Uproar over a long list of female officials who signed up to go to the Women's Summit at the UN

2023-02-25T20:21:22.638Z


There are 79 officials from different national and provincial areas to attend a summit on the Legal Condition of Women, from March 6 to 17, in New York. At the beginning it was a list of 200. In the Ministry of Women they came out to clarify that four representatives of that organization travel.


The dissemination of a list of almost 80 officials from the national government, from the provinces and municipalities, plus others from civil society who registered as "members of the

entire official Argentine Delegation to the 67th Commission on Legal Status and Social Security for Women”,

generated an internal commotion in the Government and controversy in the networks and official offices.

The dissemination of the list, which is internal to the government, led the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity of the Nation to clarify this Saturday that it will only "send four representatives, among whom is not the holder of that portfolio, Ayelén Mazzina , to the face-to-face activities that will take place in New York at the meeting of the Commission on the Legal and Social Condition of Women".

"The face-to-face participation of representatives of the provinces and/or civil society is in no case financed by the national government," they clarified by the official agency Télam.

The activity at the UN will take place over eleven days at the organization's headquarters in New York from March 6 to 17.


"On the part of the Ministry, only four people will participate in person in New York to guarantee a minimum representation in the face-to-face activities" of four of the eleven days that the CSW 2023 will meet, stated the portfolio of Women, Gender and Diversity through a release.

According to the UN Commission's own website, it is

the "main international intergovernmental body dedicated exclusively to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women."

 It was created by the Economic and Social Council in 1946. and depends on it.It has as its context the incorporation of the gender perspective in the activities of the United Nations.

The list of the officials who signed up from Argentina was almost 200, but 79 finally signed up to travel, of which, after the scandal surrounding the case, several could be downloaded, said a source who has the original list in his possession.

Other women will participate in the event via Zoom.

When asked by

Clarín,

 the government said that "they signed up because signing up is free." "Only six people can enter the banking sector (within the United Nations).

Each ministry and agency rules.

And in fact there is a hybrid format too ”, they pointed out from an official division that will send representatives.

Despite the fact that the list of officials signed up for the Women's Summit is extensive, the agenda that the country will take to the meeting is unknown.

It has not been exposed what they will raise or how 

they will combine positions.


From the Cabinet headquarters, there was a provision in 2022 that reads: "Restrict transfers for official missions or service commissions abroad, whatever the source of financing the expense, to recognized international events that cannot be postponed for the interests of the National State whose organization does not consider participating appropriately through a virtual meeting platform or video conferencing software.

The official or the requesting official or authority must declare, as an affidavit, that the event does not have alternatives that allow adequate intervention, remotely.

This is Administrative Decision 836/2022, signed by former Chief of Staff Juan Manzur and Interior Minister Eduardo de Pedro.

On the list noted to attend the March summit in New York are, among many others, the Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity, Ayelén Massina, along with two of her advisers (Agustina Gonzalez Ceuninck, Julieta Tamara Sielecki).

But now, they have clarified that she is not going, and that four officials are going.

In the list, the ten rented advisers who want to travel to New York are striking.

Figure María Perceval, who was Cristina Kirchner's political ambassador at the UN and is now an official at the Foreign Ministry;

and from that ministry, Silvina Montenegro, Director of the Directorate of Gender and Diversity Affairs, and Alba Rueda, activist for LGBTI+ rights, the first trans woman appointed Special Representative on sexual orientation and gender identity of the Foreign Ministry (this Saturday diplomatic sources pointed out to Clarín that he would finally participate by zoom),

in addition to actress Thelma Fardín

.

Source: clarin

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