BUENOS AIRES –
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, held this Friday a gathering in Paris wherein they appeared to depart behind the current controversy involving the soccer groups of their nations and sought to advance the consolidation of bilateral ties.
The hour-long assembly on the Elysée Palace passed off within the run-up to the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Video games, wherein Milei will take part alongside 100 different presidents. Macron greeted the ultra-liberal chief with a hug and, smiling, they each entered the constructing that homes the French presidency.
The assembly, which was additionally attended by Argentina’s presidential secretary Karina Milei – the president’s sister and right-hand lady – mirrored the “glorious state of relations between France and Argentina” and between the 2 presidents, stated an official assertion from the South American nation.
He famous that Macron “took a second to thank the president’s sister straight and particularly” for relieving the strain generated with France by the mantra that Argentine soccer gamers devoted to their French counterparts after the South American nation just lately received the Copa América.
Additionally for his intervention within the face of the “unlucky Tweet” posted by Vice President Victoria Villarruel, amidst French unrest, supporting the Argentine staff and calling France a colonialist nation.
The Secretary Common of the Presidency went to the French embassy in Buenos Aires to apologize for that and different important statements by Villarruel and to make clear that the latter was talking in a private capability. Her intervention was learn as a disavowal of the vice chairman, with whom, in accordance with the press, the Milei brothers have a tense relationship.
After profitable the Copa America on July 14, a video on Instagram confirmed Enzo Fernández and different Argentine gamers chanting that France’s footballers are “all from Angola.”
It’s the similar chant that claims that French gamers have dad and mom from Nigeria and Cameroon, which was sung by Argentine followers earlier than their nation’s staff confronted France within the 2022 World Cup ultimate, which the Albicelestes received.
A number of French-born gamers, Fernandez’s teammates at Chelsea, questioned the Argentine participant. The English membership initiated an inside disciplinary process. In the meantime, FIFA started an investigation into the incident following a criticism from the French soccer federation for “racist feedback.”
The Argentine vice chairman took intention at France and said on her X account —previously Twitter— that “no colonialist nation goes to intimidate us for a track or for telling the truths that they do not need to admit.” She added: “We by no means had colonies or second-class residents. We by no means imposed our lifestyle on anybody.”
The assembly additionally served to overview the financial agenda. Milei thanked France for its assist for Argentina on the board of the Worldwide Financial Fund – with which the South American nation is negotiating the acquiring of recent recent funds – and Macron congratulated the Argentine for “the reforms undertaken.”
Each leaders share a liberal financial ideology however not the identical political creed, since Milei is on the far proper.
Based on the assertion, Macron talked about the difficulties that some French corporations have had up to now in investing in Argentina and stated that he intends to fortify investments.
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