Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman met in Moscow with his Russian
counterpart Sergi Lavrov who confirmed a formal invitation to Argentina
to take part in a BRICS summit to be held in Brazil next month. The
Kremlin also ratified its support to Buenos Aires in its long-standing
dispute against the United Kingdom over the sovereignty of the Malvinas
Islands.
According to official reports, Timerman “thanked very specially the
ratification of Russia’s support” to Argentina which has been calling
London to abide by the UN resolutions that urge both parties to sit at
the negotiating table and discuss the sovereignty of the British-seized
territories.
Meanwhile, Levrov’s office confirmed the invitation to Argentina to
attend a summit of the so called BRICS countries – Brazil, India, China,
Russia and South Africa -, in social media. Furthermore, minister
Levrov said Russian leader Vladimir Putin will likely meet with
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and other Latin American heads
of state during Putin’s upcoming visit to the region.
Today’s gathering took place at the Spiridonovka Palace in Russia’s
Foreign Ministry where Argentina’s Timerman assured the “strategic
association” between both countries “is based in a common vision about
the essence of international relations, values and objectives of common
well-being that both nations are building.”
The officials were reported to have discussed both the global and
regional situation, “assuming that international conflicts have a
sustainable solution” if political leaders work toward “the
strengthening of a solid multilateral system based in cooperation and
mutual collaboration and the non-intervention in states’ domestic
affairs through economic, political or military means.”
Buenos Aires informed as well that Timerman “stressed Argentina’s
position against double-standard” messages, alluding to the condemnation
of Western powers of the referendum recently held in Crimea while same
sectors supported the 2012 voting in the Malvinas Islandas where
inhabitants there reaffirmed their decision to remain British.
At the Moscow gathering, Héctor Timerman and Sergi Levrov signed a
Joint Declaration over the deployment of weapons, thus ratifying their
pro-disarmament and anti-proliferation stance.
“Regarding economic relations, the necessary aspects to continue
intensifying bilateral trade, promoting as well investment and joint
projects, were also addressed,” it was officially reported, with
Minister Timerman highlighting the “growing south-south cooperation
Argentina carries out” and “proposing to include Russia in triangular
cooperation projects” which Levrov considered “an excellent opportunity
for joint cooperation, specially for Latin America and Africa.”
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