Miley decided not to attend the G7, but she will be in Italy next Wednesday

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While echoes of the ruling party’s legislative defeat still reverberate in the President’s Chamber of Deputies Xavier Miley Decided to shorten ten-day trip to Europe Which according to the information given by them was going to start from next Wednesday Nation Highly authoritative sources. After a long day of coming and going, The President reviewed his initial decision not to attend the G7 summit and will be in Italy next Wednesday, He will return to the country for three days and return to the European continent to complete the planned agenda in Spain and Germany,

In the morning, at the Casa Rosada he said that, for reasons of local agenda, the President would decline the invitation to attend the G7 summit in Italy, to which he had been specifically invited by the Prime Minister. Giorgia Meloni. As this newspaper learned, the communication reached the headquarters of the Argentine Embassy in Italy, where – like other European delegations – there was surprise at the decision. Well, as the afternoon wore on The government decided to split the yatra into two parts: from the 12th to the 15th, and from the 22nd to the 24th, with five days each in the country.

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As calls and diplomatic consultations continued, this was confirmed The President will not attend the peace summit in Ukraineto be held in Switzerland on the 15th and 16th of this month, and to which he was invited by the President Volodymyr Zelensky. By the way, Miley will not be the only absentee at that summit: various countries, such as China and Brazil, have announced that they will not attend, given that Vladimir Putin’s Russia has not been invited.

A bilateral meeting with Emmanuel Macron in France also failed to materialise, setting off this change in the government’s plans.Originally scheduled for June 19, and which was watched with expectation in the national diplomacy and the Argentine embassy, ​​led by the young man Ian Sielecki,

When the decision to skip the summit was confirmed, people close to the president said that “This has never been fully confirmedMiley’s participation in the G7, which in theory will bring together presidents and prime ministers United States, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Italy and United Kingdomin addition to other world celebrities such as Pope Franciscowho confirmed his presence. And he said the decision to reject his participation in the meeting was related to National dates of 17 and 20 June

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“Although the G7 was before (those dates), it would have been inconvenient to go and then return to the country on the first day Miguel de Güemes and Miley’s first Flag Day as president. This situation has changed and Miley will make two visits in the same week. In that sense, the Buenos Aires government arranged a joint celebration of the National Flag Day.

The President of Brazil has also been invited to the G7, Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silvaas president of the G20 this year. There had been speculation about the possibility that the first bilateral meeting between the two leaders would take place there, in order to ease the strained personal relations between them. In any case, the presence of the Brazilian president was not confirmed, according to sources in that country.

Based on this adjustment in the original plan, Miley will make a second trip to Madrid at night on the 20thwill be in Spain on the 21st and will receive an award from the Juan de Mariana Institute for “exemplary defense of the ideas of freedom”. Others honored by the same institution, a liberal-oriented think tank, in previous years were Peruvian writers Mario Vargas Llosa; their Spanish counterparts Antonio EscohotadoAnd Alberto Benegas Lynch (H), one of the liberal thinkers most admired by the President.

On her previous trip to Spain, Miley attended an election campaign event for the far-right group Vox, and appeared alongside its leader, Santiago Abascal. their criticism Begoña Sánchezthe wife of the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro SanchezA diplomatic crisis arose that ended with the Spanish ambassador in Buenos Aires, Maria Jesus AlonsoBack in Madrid.

From Madrid, Miley will spend two days in Germany, where she will have two central events: on the 22nd in Hamburg, she will receive the award Friedrich von HayekAnd on the 23rd he will be welcomed with military honours by the German Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholzwho will open the German government headquarters on Sunday for the occasion. Of Social Democratic affiliation, but a fan of fiscal balance, Scholz will ultimately be the only president with whom Miley will meet in a bilateral meeting on his new European tour.

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