The President of the United States, Joe Biden, invited his Argentine counterpart, Alberto Fernández, on Wednesday to travel to Washington in July to address issues of “human rights, food insecurity, climate change and energy, technological innovation and chains of essential supplies”, reported a statement from the White House.
The note, which does not offer details on possible dates, confirms the conversation that both presidents had after Fernández confirmed that he will attend the Summit of the Americas to be held this month in Los Angeles, California.
“The (US) president invited President Fernández to visit Washington in July to take advantage of the active engagement between the United States and Argentina on bilateral, regional and global”, the statement points out.
The note adds that Biden reiterated to Fernández “that the relationship of the United States with the rest of the continent is based in partnership, mutual respect and the shared goal of promoting an ecological and equitable recovery from the covid-19 pandemic”.
Sources Argentine officials had previously confirmed to Efe that Fernández sent a letter to the organizing committee of the hemispheric meeting on Wednesday morning to confirm his participation in the summit, which will be held in the United States from 6 to 10 June.
“In addition, this afternoon Biden called the president and they talked for 25 minutes”, Argentine government sources added.
The confirmation of Fernández’s attendance at the meeting in Los Angeles and the dialogue with Biden comes after last Thursday the Argentine president himself received Christopher Dodd, special adviser to the United States Government for the IX Summit of the Americas, in Buenos Aires.
After that meeting, Dodd emphasized the “strength” of E’s relationship United States with Argentina, built on the “shared commitment to democracy, human rights and economic prosperity” and was “hopeful” with an “active” participation of Fernández in the summit as “regional leader”.
Previously, the Argentine government had publicly questioned the possibility that the United States would exclude Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the countries invited to the Summit of the Americas, something that has also caused discomfort in other Latin American governments.
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