by Javier Milei’s phone rang during the escalation of the Buenos Aires-Davos route that runs through the President. On his WhatsApp he had a direct message from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth and Development of the United Kingdom, David Cameron.
Prime Minister between 2010 and 2016Cameron invited Milei in his brief telephone letter to a meeting between the two within the framework of the World Economic Forum in Davos, this Wednesday afternoon. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak withdrew from participating in the exclusive economic forum for the second consecutive year. where Milei will debut. Cameron always went and in January 2016 he met Mauricio Macri who had just taken office.
By the way, the first political interview that Chancellor Diana Mondino will have, in Davos, this Wednesday, will be with Cameron, in the middle of a series of meetings with foreign ministers who traveled to Switzerland and with representatives of important companies. These are meetings in which they would only be accompanied by the Secretary of International Economic Relations of the Foreign Ministry, Marcelo Cima, who is in charge, among other things, of reviving the Mercosur-European Union agreement, and Argentina’s entry into the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD).
After the declarations of the libertarians in the campaign with which Kirchnerism sought to make a difference – Milei admires Margaret Thatcher economically and Mondino expressed the interests of the islanders in the sovereignty conflict over the Malvinas – the Libertad Avanza government wants a relationship of greater dialogue and less conflict with the United Kingdom than the one that the Kirchners and Alberto Fernández had.
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Manuel Adorni confirmed the meeting with the Chancellor of the United Kingdom although he clarified that he still does not have details of the agenda.
In an interview about the end of the campaign, Milei said that “he will exhaust all diplomatic channels so that (the islands) become Argentine again.”
Relationships have already begun to have a different format. This Tuesday is in Argentina British police officer Stephen Kavanagh, executive director of Interpol Police Services (and candidate to be Secretary General of Interpol starting in the middle of the year). He met with the vice chancellor, Leopoldo Sahores, and the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, as well as with the leadership of the Federal Police.
On the other hand, the same reality is forcing Milei to break with his original plan of giving only his speech and returning to Argentina, without granting any interviews.
That initial plan was already broken with the meeting that will be held within the framework of the Davos Forum with the number of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva in which he would be accompanied by the Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo, in a small delegation that, in addition to Mondino and Cima, includes the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse and the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei.
They are also setting up a meeting with the president of France Emmanuel Macron.
Cameron had a very good relationship with Mauricio Macri and a very bad one with Cristina Kirchner – both accused each other of being “colonialists” over the Malvinas issue.
For that matter, both Macron and Cameron – Sunak also communicated – were among the first to speak by phone with Milei to congratulate him on his victory in the November 19 runoff.
According to Clarín, if the format of a formal bilateral is not achieved in Davos, they will have at least what the Americans call “pull-aside” and the British “brush-by.” The delegations leave while carrying out an activity and the leaders greet each other affectionately, have a brief exchange and take photos.
In principle, only the Milei brothers, Chancellor Mondino, Economy Minister Caputo and Ambassador Cima would be with them.
Mondino’s agenda
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina will have an agenda with Milei and another parallel one starting this Wednesday the 17th.
It will begin with a working breakfast with the Vice President of External Affairs for the Americas of the company Massalin Particulares, Matías O’Farrell.
He will continue with Cameron, and then with Minister Caputo, and Posse, they will be at the Davos meeting “Diálogo Country Dialogue on Argentina”, which will be moderated by the former president of the IDB, Luis Alberto Moreno.
At European noon, the Chancellor will have a meeting with the Global CEO of MSD-MERCK, Joseph Romanelli, and later with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Hanke Bruins Slot.
In the afternoon, he will meet with his counterparts from the Republic of Lithuania, Gabrielius Landsbergis, and from the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavský, and with the Secretary of State of the Swiss Confederation, Helene Budliger Artieda.
After Milei’s intervention at the Forum (he will talk about his ultra-liberal plan, still in favor of Freedom, and about inheritance and economic deterioration in his conference “Achieving security and cooperation in a fractured world”), Mondino will participate as a panelist of the Dialogue of Ministers with Press Leaders, which will have Ricardo Ávila of the El Tiempo Newspaper as moderator, and later of Latin America’s Economic Realism, which will be moderated by the former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Colombia, Mauricio Cárdenas.
Mondino will attend the reception offered by JP Morgan and then participate in the working lunch “Logging Into Latin America – The disruptive impact of emerging technologies and AI, together with Caputo and Posse.
On Thursday the 18th, Chancellor Mondino’s agenda in Davos will begin with a meeting with her Costa Rican counterpart, Arnoldo André Tinoco, and will continue with a meeting with the CEO of NESTLÉ, Mark Schneider.
Always accompanied by Cima, he will be with the CEO of VISA, Ryan McInerney and, later, with the President of International Development of Coca-Cola, Henrique Braun, and later with the CEO of Louis Dreyfus Company, Michael Gelchie.
He will return on Thursday the 18th in the same delegation that accompanies Milei.
