Updated to Monday 10.6.2024 22:50hs
Karina Milei continues to gain political influence by adding functions to the official organizational chart. The general secretary and sister of the President will also manage the investment promotion agency. In addition, it will be Javier Milei’s only company at the Group of 7 Summit to be held in Italy.
Karina Milei’s advance is to the detriment of Diana Mondino, by taking charge of the National Agency for the Promotion of Exports and Investments, a key area in foreign relations that until now depended on the Foreign Ministry. Mondino will not be part of the delegation that will travel to Italy this week.
The transfer of the former ExportAr foundation was made official this Monday in decree 511/2024, published in the Official Gazette. With the signature of President Javier Milei, the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, and the rest of the ministers, it was stated that “for management reasons” the agency was suppressed from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, passing directly to the orbit of the General Secretariat.
“The transfer is made because we believe that it will be more efficient depending on the Presidency of the Nation, because everything that depends on the country brand and selling Argentina to the world will depend on it,” he justified at noon this Monday at a conference of the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, presses.
Furthermore, the spokesperson denied that there is any alleged discomfort between the president and the chancellor, after Mondino led a meeting last Friday with representatives of the Islamic community and diplomats from Arab countries. It was announced that Javier Milei would participate in the meeting, but in the end he did not do so and the chancellor was the only representative of the Government.
The truth is that rumors of the chancellor’s departure circulate in the corridors of the Casa Rosada. And in addition to taking away the secretariat, this Monday it was also confirmed that she will not participate in the trip to Italy to which Argentina was invited by the president of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, by decision of the president. Although, according to government sources indicated to the Noticias Argentinas agency, the determination responds to the limited quota of accreditations for the summit and not to a personal reason.
Decree 511/24 by El Litoral
Trip to the G7 in Italy
The President plans to travel to Borgo Egnazia on June 12 to give the present at the international event that will take place from the 13th to the 15th of the month, together with his sister and general secretary of the presidency, Karina Milei.
The intention of the libertarian delegation is to return to the country to commemorate the national dates of the 17th (the passage to immortality of General Don Martín Miguel de Güemes) and the 20th (the passage to Immortality of General Manuel Belgrano), and to visit Madrid , Spain, on the 21st of the month, and will be on the 22nd to Hamburg, Germany, where he will be decorated.
Despite having reestablished the agenda, the suspended bilateral meeting with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, scheduled for June 19, will, in principle, not take place. It was going to be his first contact with a European leader since his inauguration.
With the intention of avoiding spending more than ten days abroad, the President will return to the country at the end of the Summit made up of the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Canada, and will return to Europe a few days later. .
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Switzerland is promoting, with the support of the European Union (EU), a high-level meeting on peace in Ukraine that will take place on June 15 and 16, in Burgenstock, a city near Lucerne.
Days later, on the 18th, he will travel to New York to present at the meeting of the UN Decolonization Committee.
