President Javier Milei this Saturday he held a bilateral meeting with the head of state of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who received it in Switzerland within the framework of the Global Peace Summit carried out in said country. The meeting took place after the event in which the 50 world leaders, convened with the objective of demanding the cessation of Russia’s aggressions on Ukrainian territory and the end of the war.
During the meeting, which had been previously scheduled, the leaders discussed the cooperation and trade relations between both countries. In addition, Zelensky thanked Argentina for its recent accession to the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children and gave the libertarian a special gift: the Order of Liberty.
“In the name of the President of Ukraine for his personal contributions in strengthening relations between the states of Argentina and Ukraine and in defending the integrity of the sovereignty of the territory of Ukraine. The Order of Freedom is delivered to Javier Milei,” they expressed in the brief ceremony.
It is a medal which is awarded for special merits at the time of strengthen the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, the consolidation of Ukrainian society, the development of democracy and the progress of socio-economic and political reforms. Also delivered byr promote constitutional rights and freedoms.
Milei took the opportunity to ratify his support for Ukraine and added: “We support Ukraine and we believe that no one has the right to invade another country and here there is clearly an invader, which is Russia, and someone who was invaded and attacked, which is the case of Ukraine.”
At the end of the meeting, Zelensky shared on his social networks a video and several photos of the moment shared with Javier Milei and summarized the meeting: “We discussed the next steps in the implementation of the specific points of the Peace Formula. I thank Argentina for recently joining the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children. We also talked about bilateral cooperation and trade,” the Ukrainian leader wrote on his X account.
In another post, he added: “I thanked President Milei for attending the Peace Summit. We also appreciate the broad presence of Latin American countries. I trust that history will remember this long road to peace”. In the photos shared by Zelensky, the Argentine Foreign Minister also appears, Diana Mondino, and the General Secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei, who participated in the meeting.
Minutes before the bilateral meeting, Javier Milei had given a brief presentation at the Global Peace Summit in which he repudiated the war in Ukrainian territory, asked for peace and he highlighted the fact of having been invited to the event as a very important step for Argentina.
“I want to express on behalf of the Argentine people our maximum support for the people of Ukraine and our friend President Zelensky, since as defenders of freedom We repudiate any form of violence. Whether between individuals, but in particular we repudiate war as an illegitimate mechanism to resolve conflicts between nations. War, tragic by nature, can never be the answer to problems that must be resolved in the political sphere. It is not a legitimate tool to resolve conflicts”the president said in his presentation.
In this sense, he pointed out that “as defenders of freedom”, Argentines cannot advocate for anything other than peace between free peoples and nations. “As I am a fervent believer in the philosophical awareness of liberalism and peace, I make this brief plea today in its defense, since these ideas seem to have gone out of fashion. I think that It is an important step for Argentina to be present first at the G7 summit and then here at this summit for peace,” he continued.
In conclusion, he highlighted that Argentina will always be committed to defending the ideas that made the West great and that it believes that peace is necessary condition for prosperity. “There is a new Argentina that once again embraces the ideas that 150 years ago made it one of the most important countries in the world. AND There is a new Argentina that also seeks to regain its leading place in the concert of nations that he once had and should never have abandoned,” Milei closed.
