President Alberto Fernández opens the Summit this morning, under the Pro Tempore Argentine Presidency. He will do so with an opening speech in which geopolitical definitions for the region are expected in a context marked by the arrival of Brazil.
10.44 Alberto Fernández: “The blockades are a very perverse method of sanctioning the peoples”
In his speech, the Argentine president stated: “We must work together in a world where globalization exists.” He also highlighted his passage through the presidency protemore of the Celacand said that he took care of “claim respect for our nations”. “At the Summit of the Americas I brought the voice of the Latin American countries that still suffer from blockades,” he said.
In this line, he reaffirmed: “The blockades are a very perverse method of sanctioning the peoples, we cannot continue allowing it. Cuba has been here for six decades, Venezuela the same. We must work to strengthen the institutional framework of our nation, we believe in democracy.”
10.35 Alberto Fernández: “A Celac without Brazil is a much emptier Celac”
The Argentine president took the floor and first of all asked for “a huge round of applause to celebrate the return of Brazil to Celac.” “It is not necessary to tell him what it means for an Argentine to have Lula presiding over our friend Lula in Brazil. A Celac without Brazil is a much emptier Celac.”
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The objective of the match, stressed Fernandez and his Brazilian pair Lula da Silva in the previous one, it will be to find that the CELAC “recover international leadership“, with a center-left agenda as cultivated by the leaders who summoned it.
The opening was in charge of Fernández and the chancellor santiago cafiero and then the plenary began with the presence of the presidents of the more than thirty countries that make up this group.
The first president to arrive was the Uruguayan Luis Lacalle Pou, at 9.20. Twenty minutes later, the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz Canel, did so, and at 9:55 a.m., Alberto Fernández did so.
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