He libertarian leader arrived in Switzerland this Saturday and, after some connections, arrived in the city of Burgenstock to participate in the Global Peace Summit in Ukraine. After the meeting, he will hold a bilateral meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskywho will present him with the “Order of Freedom” decoration.
He Sunday will be return in the morning and the Monday will be part of events tribute to Martín Miguel de Güemes. The main event will be in Salta, the leader’s province, but We will see Governor Gustavo Sáenz’s call for a “Güemes Pact.”
Javier Milei, present at the Ukraine peace summit
The president will participate in the meeting that will be held this Saturday and Sunday in Swiss. There he will meet Zelensky, with whom he will collaborate in the humanitarian and defense areas. Both have a good relationship and the president will seek to relate more with kyiv.
Milei will be accompanied by the chancellor Diana Mondino; the defense minister, Luis Petriand the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni. At the summit they will be 70 international leaders. However, Russia will not be therea country that is at war with Ukraine.
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Javier Milei held a bilateral meeting with Kristalina Georgieva at the G7.
Javier Milei’s speech at the peace summit
The President spoke at the summit and assured that it is an honor for both him and Argentina to participate in the event organized by Zelensky, with whom he met “a close bond“. Then, he expressed that Argentines “have full awareness of the value of peace and democratic coexistence as guiding axes of life in society”, and then thanked him for the invitation to the summit.
Milei expressed on behalf of the Argentine people, the “maximum support to the people of Ukraine” and to President Zelensky. “As defenders of the idea of freedom we repudiate any form of violence. But in particular we repudiate war as an illegitimate mechanism to resolve conflicts between nations.”
In that sense, he referred specifically to the conflict in Ukraine and maintained that “the tragic war by nature It can never be the answer to problems that must be resolved in the political sphere. War is not a legitimate tool to resolve conflicts“It is the last resort of a people that must defend itself.”
“We are defenders of the idea of freedom. Liberalism is the respect and restriction of the life project of others, based on the principle of non-aggression, in defense of the right to life, liberty and private property“he added.
Then, he continued his speech pointing out that peace must be defended between free peoples and nations. “There is a direct relationship between peace, trade and prosperity,” she said, adding that “There is no economic prosperity without free trade, and there is no free trade if there is no peace.“.
Javier Milei He also referred to the importance of Argentina’s participation in the G7 summit and the peace summit. “It is part of the great turn we are taking as a country after decades of turning our backs on the world.“Finally, he maintained that there is a new Argentina that seeks “recover the leading place in the concert of nations that it once had and that should never have abandoned“.
The relationship between Javier Milei and Vladimir Zelensky
The Argentine president has a good relationship with the president of Ukraine. The latter not only visited the country for the inauguration on December 10, but they also regularly hold conversations.
For this reason, Zelensky invited Milei to participate in the summit through a video call. “As part of our usual dialogue, I spoke with Argentine President Javier Milei. I appreciate Argentina’s support for the Peace Formula. Because it is important that Latin America’s voice be heard at our Peace Summit in Switzerland, I invited President Milei to attend,” the invitation stated.
Finally, On June 17, the President will return to Argentina and will celebrate the national dates. Then, will travel to Spain.
