A strong security operation was deployed early this Monday, January 23, in Retiro due to the presence of the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, to participate in the agenda of the Summit of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). It is that his agenda will start at 10:30 with the placement of a wreath at the monument of General San Martín located in the homonymous square.
Lula will start his activities in Buenos Aires with that brief ceremony according to the information disseminated by the organization of the summit. Once he finishes, around 11, the president will go to the Casa Rosada, where he will hold a bilateral meeting with Alberto Fernandezwhere one of the main topics will be the progress towards a common currency for transactions between both countries.
“We decided to advance discussions on a common South American currency that can be used for both financial and commercial flowsreducing operating costs and our external vulnerability,” both leaders announced yesterday, Sunday, January 22, in a letter published in PERFIL.
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Later, Lula and Fernández will sign cooperation agreements on Energy Sovereignty and Financial Integration, Defense, Health, Science, Technology and Innovation, and Antarctic Cooperation. It is expected that at the end there will be a press conference with the basic guidelines of the agreements and deepens regarding the new currency.
The agenda foresees that there will be a lunch around noon between the members of both delegations in the Eva Perón Room to later participate in a Business Meeting at the Bicentennial Museum. About the end of the day there will be a activity with representatives of human rights organizations.
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This Tuesday, meanwhile, starts the official activity within the framework of the Celac summit.
Starting at 10 in the morning on Tuesday, Fernández and Lula will participate together with the other presidents, representatives and invited delegations in the summit, which will take place at the Sheraton hotel in Withdrawal.
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The presence of leaders, foreign ministers and representatives of the 33 member countries of the regional mechanism is expected there, in addition to observers from different regional and multilateral organizations and their representatives
The decision for Brazil to rejoin Celac was anticipated by Lula in the first days of his government and was formalized a week ago, following the Brazilian ambassador in Argentina, Reinaldo Jose de Almeida Salgadodeliver a formal letter to Cafiero, which constitutes a a fundamental fact for the consolidation of the regional mechanism.
“The event will mark the return of Brazil to this mechanism of dialogue and regional consultation. A relationship that should never have been interrupted and that the history of Latin American brotherhood manages to resume,” both presidents wrote in the letter published in PERFIL.
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