President Alberto Fernandez will travel this Tuesday to Brazil To participate in the summit of South American presidents that will seek to develop Unassur. This Monday, he met with the elected president of Paraguay, Santiago Pena, the start of a week featuring the regional agenda. after brazil, Alberto will travel to Bolivia for his inauguration with his counterpart, Luis Arcethe first electrical connection work between the two countries.
Tonight, Fernandez and his entourage will fly to Brasilia to attend A meeting organized by the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, while it will be the second agenda of the regional agenda this week. Since Lula came to power, the Argentine head of state has sought to accelerate the merger with Brasilia, with the countries of Mercosur, and focused on the rehabilitation of the South American bloc, of which former President Nestor Kirchner was the first general secretary.
The meeting of the heads of Unassur will be held tomorrow From ten o’clock in the Itamaraty Palace in Brasiliawith an open agenda, with a provisional end time of 6:00 p.m., informed blame Argentine government sources. Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, is already in Brasilia. After the summit, a banquet is scheduled to be held at the Palacio de la Alvorada in honor of the participants.
The meeting will seek to provide engines for Unassur, which, with the return of Argentina and Brazil, once again has the six countries necessary to be able to hold sessions, as it indicates in its founding letter that it should have half of the members, which are 12. The six countries that currently make up Unassur are Argentina and Bolivia Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. The remaining six countries are Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. They all received an invitation from the Brazilian government, as detailed last Thursday by Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira. The agenda for the meeting will be open-ended, with the main idea of calling the missing countries to join Unassur.
The sources added that the closest countries will be Colombia and Chile, but in order to return to the body, they have to pass through Parliament. Likewise, the policy of integration in Latin America will be discussed and a conclusion will be reached as to whether the best mechanism to achieve this is through Unasur, in this way, adding more political power – which was already its first gesture with the return of Argentina and Brazil announced by Fernandez and had it not been for this year – and it is a crucial strategic space for the international presence of South America.
This activity will be the first concrete political action promoted by the President of Brazil, as he will demonstrate his desire to achieve the necessary consensus that confirms his call to lead this new integration process. The Constituent Treaty of Unassur (TCU) was signed on May 23, 2008 within the framework of the Extraordinary Meeting of Heads of State and Government, held in Brasília, Brazil. It entered into force in 2011.
The general secretaries of which Onassir was Nestor Kirchner, between May and October 2010; María Emma Mejía, former Foreign Minister of Colombia, between May 2011 and June 2012; Ali Rodríguez Araki, former Foreign Minister of Venezuela; between June 2012 and August 2014; and Ernesto Samper Pizano, former President of Colombia, between August 2014 and January 2017. On April 12, 2019, during the presidency of Mauricio Macri, the Argentine government decided to withdraw from the regulation.
On April 6, Foreign Minister Cafiero published on his Twitter account the memorandum signed the previous day by which Argentina officially returned to Unasor: “For the Argentine government, any situation adds the power to make decisions at the national level and consolidate an increasingly integrated region, with on that occasion.”
The summit will take place in Brasilia days after Lula himself asked the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, to “give time” to Argentina. To meet the agency’s financial obligations so that you can recover financially.
He did so during the half-hour meeting on the 20th of this month in Hiroshima, Japan, where Lula participated as a guest at the G7 summit, just as Alberto Fernandez did in 2022 in Germany. Lula has placed Argentina’s recovery as one of the pillars of Brazil’s international trade and confirmed that he is negotiating aid for Argentina with the New Development Bank, the BRICS Development Bank (Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa), of which he was former owner. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
After the tour in Brazil, the Argentine president will head to the Bolivian city of Yakipa, where he will inaugurate next Thursday, with his Bolivian counterpart, Luis Arce, the first electrical connection project between the two countries. Until now, Argentina and Bolivia had commonalities only in gas connections.
With information from Telam
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