President Alberto Fernández confirmed that he will go to the Summit of the Americas on April 9 and 10 and after that, at 5:45 p.m., he received a phone call from the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who invited him to his country to hold a bilateral meeting on July 25. According to the official statement issued by the Government, the objective of this meeting will be “to deepen the bilateral relationship in a broad agenda of strategic cooperation issues, among others: climate change, financial cooperation, renewable energies, technological innovation, human rights and production agro-food”.
The telephone dialogue lasted about 25 minutes. During the call, according to the Casa Rosada, the presidents “agreed to analyze various aspects of the world reality, among which the problems of food insecurity, the energy transition, the new regional value chains and technological change with inclusion in a context where the importance of consolidating concrete steps to guarantee global peace stands out”. In addition, they commented that “the dialogue contributed to highlighting the potential of the bilateral link, and to establishing a roadmap that, within the framework of Latin America and the Caribbean, allows the deployment of opportunities for comprehensive, sustainable and inclusive human development.”
Fernández’s attendance at the summit to be held in Los Angeles was in doubt because the Argentine government, like the Mexican, had said that it would not attend the meeting if Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua were not invited. However, after intense dialogues between Fernández and his Latin American counterparts such as the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador; that of Chile, Gabriel Boric; the one from Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro and the one from Bolivia, Luis Arce, defined that he will go there and that he will present a speech in which he will question the exclusion of these three countries from the summit.
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