Antony Blinken, Biden's head of diplomacy, comes to Argentina to meet with Javier Milei - Infobae
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February 16, 2024
The Secretary of State will have a busy agenda of meetings with officials in Argentina. He will arrive on Friday, after participating in a G20 foreign ministers' summit in Brazil. Milei will then travel to the US to participate in a conservative pro-Trump summit
By Facundo Chaves
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was in Albania this week
The United States government confirmed that Secretary of State, Antony Blinken , will visit Buenos Aires next week to meet with President Javier Milei , with the aim of addressing “bilateral and global issues, including sustainable economic growth, shared commitment with human rights and democratic governance, critical minerals and improved trade and investment that benefits both countries.”
In an official statement, it was indicated that Joe Biden's head of diplomacy will come to the country after participating in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in a series of activities linked to the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting. In the capital of the South American giant, the American official will meet with Luiz Inacio Da Silva.
Milei will meet with Blinken at Casa Rosada and plans to later travel to the United States to participate in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland. At that ultra-conservative summit she is going to expose Donald Trump , Biden 's corrosive rival in the US presidential race. The Argentine president clarified that there will not be a hand-to-hand meeting between them. “There is no time ,” the libertarian leader said yesterday.
The meeting will take place next Friday and on the agenda, in addition to the meeting with Milei, includes contacts with the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, and the ministers Diana Mondino (Foreign Relations) and Luis “Toto” Caputo (Economy), as reported to Infobae sources involved in the organization of the visit of the senior official of the Democratic administration.
President Javier Milei will meet with Blinken
The arrival of the Secretary of State is part of a renewed harmony of support from Washington to Buenos Aires, which began before Milei's inauguration, at the end of last November, with meetings at the White House with senior officials such as Kevin Sullivan , advisor of National Security. Then, once assumed, the representative of the National Security Council, Mike Pyle , and the member of the Treasury Secretariat, Michael Kaplan, came to Buenos Aires .
Subsequently, the influential Undersecretary of International Affairs of the Treasury, Jay Shambaugh, arrived in Buenos Aires. It was also confirmed that the USS George Washington aircraft carrier of the United States Navy will arrive in Argentina next May. And last week, the undersecretary for Latin America, Brian Nichols , was there, with an intense round of meetings with the majority of Milei's Cabinet ministers and businessmen from strategic sectors. They are gestures that confirm the good moment that bilateral diplomatic relations are going through.
In addition to these signals, the Democratic administration confirmed its support for the Milei government with its commitment for the Monetary Fund to unblock pending disbursements to clear up any type of instability or threat to the short-term sustainability of the economic plan.
Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi within the framework of the Munich Security Conference in Germany
Antony Blinken is the head of diplomacy for the Biden administration and has a central role in the Democratic administration. High-profile, he is involved in the main challenges facing US foreign policy, from Russia's war against Ukraine, to the crisis in the Middle East unleashed after the savage terrorist attack by Hamas on the civilian population of Israel, and the containment of China's advance.
In the statement released by the State Department, it was indicated that prior to the visit to Buenos Aires, Blinken will attend the meeting of foreign ministers in Rio de Janeiro of the 20 most powerful countries in the world. There he plans to convene G20 leaders in “shared initiatives to increase peace and stability, promote social inclusion, reduce inequality, end hunger, counteract the climate crisis, promote the transition to clean energy and development sustainable. and make global governance more effective.”
In the description of the topics to be addressed with Milei, topics of strategic importance for both parties were included. For Argentina, it is key to consolidate sustainable economic growth and promote trade and investment. The stabilization plan that the president launched had the support of Washington, which was crystallized before the IMF. And human rights, democratic governance and critical minerals are on the shared agenda that Blinken will address in Buenos Aires.
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Antony Blinken, el jefe de la diplomacia de Biden, viene a la Argentina para reunirse con Javier Milei
El secretario de Estado tendrá en la Argentina una nutrida agenda de encuentros con funcionarios. Llegará el viernes, después de participar de una cumbre de cancilleres del G20 en Brasil. Milei después viajará a EE.UU. para participar de una cumbre conservadora pro Trump
www.infobae.com
February 16, 2024
The Secretary of State will have a busy agenda of meetings with officials in Argentina. He will arrive on Friday, after participating in a G20 foreign ministers' summit in Brazil. Milei will then travel to the US to participate in a conservative pro-Trump summit
By Facundo Chaves
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was in Albania this week
The United States government confirmed that Secretary of State, Antony Blinken , will visit Buenos Aires next week to meet with President Javier Milei , with the aim of addressing “bilateral and global issues, including sustainable economic growth, shared commitment with human rights and democratic governance, critical minerals and improved trade and investment that benefits both countries.”
In an official statement, it was indicated that Joe Biden's head of diplomacy will come to the country after participating in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in a series of activities linked to the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting. In the capital of the South American giant, the American official will meet with Luiz Inacio Da Silva.
Milei will meet with Blinken at Casa Rosada and plans to later travel to the United States to participate in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland. At that ultra-conservative summit she is going to expose Donald Trump , Biden 's corrosive rival in the US presidential race. The Argentine president clarified that there will not be a hand-to-hand meeting between them. “There is no time ,” the libertarian leader said yesterday.
The meeting will take place next Friday and on the agenda, in addition to the meeting with Milei, includes contacts with the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, and the ministers Diana Mondino (Foreign Relations) and Luis “Toto” Caputo (Economy), as reported to Infobae sources involved in the organization of the visit of the senior official of the Democratic administration.
President Javier Milei will meet with Blinken
The arrival of the Secretary of State is part of a renewed harmony of support from Washington to Buenos Aires, which began before Milei's inauguration, at the end of last November, with meetings at the White House with senior officials such as Kevin Sullivan , advisor of National Security. Then, once assumed, the representative of the National Security Council, Mike Pyle , and the member of the Treasury Secretariat, Michael Kaplan, came to Buenos Aires .
Subsequently, the influential Undersecretary of International Affairs of the Treasury, Jay Shambaugh, arrived in Buenos Aires. It was also confirmed that the USS George Washington aircraft carrier of the United States Navy will arrive in Argentina next May. And last week, the undersecretary for Latin America, Brian Nichols , was there, with an intense round of meetings with the majority of Milei's Cabinet ministers and businessmen from strategic sectors. They are gestures that confirm the good moment that bilateral diplomatic relations are going through.
In addition to these signals, the Democratic administration confirmed its support for the Milei government with its commitment for the Monetary Fund to unblock pending disbursements to clear up any type of instability or threat to the short-term sustainability of the economic plan.
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Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi within the framework of the Munich Security Conference in Germany
Antony Blinken is the head of diplomacy for the Biden administration and has a central role in the Democratic administration. High-profile, he is involved in the main challenges facing US foreign policy, from Russia's war against Ukraine, to the crisis in the Middle East unleashed after the savage terrorist attack by Hamas on the civilian population of Israel, and the containment of China's advance.
In the statement released by the State Department, it was indicated that prior to the visit to Buenos Aires, Blinken will attend the meeting of foreign ministers in Rio de Janeiro of the 20 most powerful countries in the world. There he plans to convene G20 leaders in “shared initiatives to increase peace and stability, promote social inclusion, reduce inequality, end hunger, counteract the climate crisis, promote the transition to clean energy and development sustainable. and make global governance more effective.”
In the description of the topics to be addressed with Milei, topics of strategic importance for both parties were included. For Argentina, it is key to consolidate sustainable economic growth and promote trade and investment. The stabilization plan that the president launched had the support of Washington, which was crystallized before the IMF. And human rights, democratic governance and critical minerals are on the shared agenda that Blinken will address in Buenos Aires.
