Foreign Ministry Quarrel: Diana Mondino’s Efforts to Remove Alejandro Dzugala and Maintain Diplomatic Relations

2024-03-29 15:50:26

Diana Mondino wants to open a summary to remove Alejandro Dzugala. The ministry says they found out about the sanctions through the media.

March 29, 2024, 12:50 p.m.

Quarrel in the Foreign Ministry with the Argentine ambassador in Colombia: he did not answer the phone during the crisis with Petro.

In the midst of the diplomatic scandal that opened with Colombia based on the crossed statements of Javier Milei and Gustavo Petro, an unusual event further bogged down the crisis and provoked the fury of Diana Mondino: on Wednesday, the day of greatest tension, the chancellor He was unable to communicate with Alejandro Dzugala, the Argentine ambassador to Colombia, who did not report or answer his calls.

“He did not appear,” sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tell TN about Dzugala, a career diplomat who spent time in several embassies around the world.

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Such is the anger with Dzugala that Mondino wants to open a summary to remove him. He accuses him of having “erased himself” to such an extent that the Foreign Ministry found out about Petro’s retaliation (expulsion of all Argentine diplomats) through the media.

Despite the harsh disagreements between the leaders, Mondino has been toning down the conflict, ensuring that “relations have not been broken” between the countries. The chancellor’s expectation was that the ambassador would become an interlocutor who would help her put a cold shoulder to the situation.

Diana Mondino attempts to break diplomatic relations with several countries. (Photo: Reuters)

Dzugala, however, did not answer the phone during the most tense day. And he appeared, they say, only on Thursday, when Petro had already ordered the expulsion of diplomats from the Argentine embassy in Bogotá after Milei called him a “terrorist murderer.”

When asked about Petro’s decision, Mondino assured: “We have not yet received that information. On Wednesday we were without internet in the chancellery and we have not received an official communication. Officially, I can say that that did not happen.”

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“We have a lot of trade between the two countries. “We must not confuse the country with the president,” the Chancellor insisted about the bilateral relationship and confirmed: “It is not an issue that has to escalate in some way,” Mondino remarked in response to the intersections between leaders and Petro’s apology. .

The conflict with Colombia is not the only front that the chancellor has been addressing. This same week, Mondino had to persuade Senator Martín Lousteau to sign the document from Axel Wahnish – Milei’s spiritual guide – for his nomination as Argentine ambassador to Israel, six days after he refused to support him because the version of the move from the diplomatic headquarters from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem complicated the claim of national sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. Apparently, the Government had to give in on its idea of ​​moving the embassy.

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs does the same with Brazil, Mexico (Milei called Andrés Manuel López Obrador “ignorant”) and with China, a country to which she would travel in the coming days to calm Beijing’s anger over some actions of the Argentine government that they consider “inadmissible”.

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