President Alberto Fernandez arrived this wednesday at Chile to attend, along with his peer Gabriel Boricto the act for the 205 years of the Maipú Embrace between Bernardo O’Higgins and José de San Martín. Then a bilateral meeting with the trans-Andean head of state is scheduled, where they will participate from there in a virtual meeting with Latin American leaders to discuss the issue of the inflation in the region.
Alberto Fernández arrived in Chile
The arrival of the President on Chilean soil was at 11:12 in the morning, they specified from Government House. There he was received by diplomatic authorities of the Boric government at the Santiago de Chile “Arturo Merino Benítez” International Airport.
Alberto Fernandez first greeted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Alberto Van Klaveren. Then, he proceeded to greet the delegation from the Argentine embassy in that country, headed by ambassador Rafael Bielsa.
According to the official agenda, Fernández left early from Buenos Aires, to participate in the act of ceremony of commemoration of the Battle of Maipú, reported sources from the Presidency.
The Head of State traveled accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Santiago Cafiero; the General Secretary of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello; the presidential adviser, Ricardo Forster, and the national deputy, Marcelo Casaretto.
Hug of Maipu
The meeting was confirmed on the 25th of last month in a bilateral meeting held coffee and his Chilean counterpart Alberto van Klaverenwithin the framework of the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government that was held in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic.
He Hug of Maipua town located near the capital Santiago, it took place between O’Higgins and San Martín on April 5, 1818, following the battle of Maipú that occurred that same day.
In Maipú the Argentine-Chilean United Army, commanded by San Martín, and the royalist forces that responded to the Spanish monarch Fernando VII and that were led by Mariano Osorio faced each other.
The victory of the United Army reaffirmed the Proclamation of the Independence of Chile, which occurred almost two months earlier, on February 12 of that same year.
anti inflation summit
Then, at 12 in Chile (13 in Argentina), from the Argentine Embassy in Santiago de Chile, Fernández will intervene by zoom in a meeting called by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, called “Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean countries once morest inflation.”
In addition to Fernández and López Obrador, the Bolivian leaders, Luis Arce; from Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; from Chile, Gabriel Boric; from Colombia, Gustavo Petro; from Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and from Honduras, Xiomara Castro, in addition to the Prime Ministers of Belize, Juan Antonio Briceño, and of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Everard Gonsalves.
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There, initiatives to reduce inflation will be analyzed jointly and it would be the prologue for another face-to-face meeting next May in Mexico City.
Among these points, an attempt will be made to establish a mechanism for the exchange of basket products that measures inflation at a lower production price. On March 28, the foreign ministers held their first meeting, also virtually.
Bilateral
And from 3:45 p.m. Chilean time (4:45 p.m. in Argentina), the President will hold a bilateral working meeting with Boric, and then move on to an extended meeting with members of both governments.
The meeting will be held in the White Room of the Palacio de la Moneda and there will be discussed the main issues of the bilateral relationship and the progress that has been made regarding the commitments made in the Joint Declaration that they signed on the occasion of the State Visit of the President from Chile to Argentina on April 4, 2022.
The president will be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Santiago Cafiero; the General Secretary of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello; the presidential adviser Ricardo Forster; the national deputy Marcelo Casaretto and the ambassador of Argentina in Chile, Rafael Bielsa.
Once the activities are finished, Fernández will return to Argentina.
