After participate in the G20 summit in Rome, President Alberto Fernández disembarked (5:17 p.m. Argentinian time) in Glasgow, Scotland, where he will participate in the Leaders’ Summit of the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26).
Before the trip, on your last day in Italy, The President met with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Fernández and the official delegation were received at Glasgow Prestwick Airport by the Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Javier Figueroa; the Minister of the Argentine Embassy, Alessandra Viggiano Marra; and the defense attaché, Martín Gómez. And for the UK, there was Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative Richard Austen and Her Majesty’s Representative Queen Elizabeth II Iona McDonald.
Agenda at COP26
Morning, Monday November 1, Fernández will begin the second leg of his European tour in the Scottish city of Glasgow, where he will participate in the COP26. The first activity in this country of the United Kingdom will be the opening ceremony of the aforementioned conference (8-9 a.m. Argentina time), which will be chaired by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“In Glasgow, Argentina will take important positions with regard to strengthening the commitment made in Paris in 2016 on the emission reduction“, declared last Thursday Gabriela Cerruti, head of the Communication Unit of the presidential management. And he specified: “He’s going to take a proposal that increases it up to 27% more“, according to the NA agency.
After the presentation of the summit, a plenary session (four hours) will begin and in parallel (between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm) the high-level meeting “Action and solidarity: the critical decade” will be held.
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Afternoon, at 2 p.m., the official reception offered by Boris Johnson and other members of the royal family is scheduled on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II, in honor of Heads of State or Government attending COP26, with welcoming speeches at 3 p.m. and the official photo 15 minutes later.
The Second day (2 November) in Scottish territory, it will begin with a welcome breakfast offered by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Then, at 9:20 a.m., Alberto Fernández meet the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, then he will have a bilateral meeting with the President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin.
In addition to these last two meetings, the Plenary Session of the COP26 Leaders’ Summit will be held. There, the president will insist that “debt swaps for climate action” are essential to “get out of the crisis” of the environment, as he stressed at the Latin American summit on climate change. , in which he participated by videoconference on the 8th of last month. .
At 1:00 p.m. the closing ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place.
G20: Alberto Fernández leaves Rome summit with political victory
Meetings with Justin Trudeau and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Rome
This Sunday, on the second day of the G20 Leaders’ Summit, President Alberto Fernández held bilateral meetings with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and with the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The second of these meetings was the Canadian Trudeau, to whom Fernández thanked the donation of more than 500,000 AstraZeneca vaccines received by the COVAX mechanism, and the support of this North American country in the Declaration on the question of the Malvinas.
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The officials also celebrated the excellent level reached by the bilateral relationship 80 years after its establishment, and reviewed the agenda on sustainable development, employment and social security, human rights, gender equality and climate change, according to an official statement.
They also highlighted Canada’s role as tenth country to invest in Argentina and first in the mining sector, and stressed the importance of jointly promoting sustainable mining development. They, in turn, agreed to work in a coordinated manner to deepen and diversify investment and trade in areas such as agribusiness and energy.
Previously, the Head of State had met the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, quien congratulated Argentina for dealing with the pandemic of Covid-19, vaccination levels, obtaining vaccines from various laboratories and the current situation, with infections and deaths declining, according to the same press release.
Fernández stressed the importance of Approval of the Sputnik V vaccine from WHO, and the head of the organization said they were already making progress to get it prequalified. They also discussed inequalities in access and distribution of vaccines; To which Ghebreyesus added that they ask that vaccination certificates not be used because they promote inequalities.
The WHO chief in turn asked for Argentina’s support for the pandemic treaty, a request to which the country’s president agreed and said he would promote a request for improved funding for this pandemic. multilateral organization within the framework of the United Nations.
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