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President Javier Milei will participate this Wednesday in the World Economic Forum, which will be attended by leaders from various countries and economists from around the world, while also holding audiences with authorities from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Milei, who departed from Ezeiza on Monday at 6:21 p.m. on a Lufthansa flight, arrived in Frankfurt (Germany) on Tuesday at 7:05 a.m. (Argentine time), and then headed by air to Zurich (Switzerland), from where he was transferred by road to Davos, a town of 11,000 inhabitants, where he is scheduled to give his speech today shortly before noon.
He is accompanied by the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse; the ministers of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Diana Mondino, and of Economy, Luis Caputo, and the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei.
The head of state assured that the objective of his trip to Davos will be “to plant the ideas of freedom in a forum contaminated by the socialist 2030 agenda and that the only thing it will bring is misery to the world.”
In a video that was recorded on the plane that was transporting him and published by the Infobae portal, Milei stated that during his presentation he will transmit the message that “freedom is the key to prosperity.”
FILE – Presidential candidate Javier Milei gives a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 11, 2023. Milei will attend the 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
It will be at 3:50 p.m. local time (11:50 a.m. in Argentina), an exhibition that may last up to 25 minutes, in the Forum Venue-Congress Center Area-Jakobshorn Session Room (Level 1), where it will be presented by the executive president and founder of the Forum World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab.
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Regarding his meeting with the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m. in Argentina), Milei assured that he will seek to “continue talking and making it very clear to her the conviction that we have in this change of course that the new government has marked.”
The President will analyze with Georgieva the recent agreement reached by the country with the multilateral credit organization, within the framework of the seventh review of the Extended Facilities Program, official sources indicated.
Posse and Caputo held a meeting on Tuesday with the Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, Gita Gopinath, with whom they discussed the staff level agreement reached with the organization.
And it was agreed that officials will hold a meeting with Georgieva this Wednesday, which will take place before the scheduled hearing with Milei.
Javier Milei in Davos, his meeting with David Cameron
In addition, the president will also meet this Wednesday in Davos with British Chancellor David Cameron, while in February he will be received in Italy by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, confirmed presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni.
“It has just been confirmed that the president will have tomorrow – today – a bilateral meeting with the British Secretary of State David Cameron,” who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2016, Adorni said yesterday in his usual press conference. morning at Casa Rosada.
President Javier Milei is on his way to Davos (Courtesy)
In addition, the spokesperson reported that on February 11, Milei “will be received by Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy”; and expressed that “the date of the audience in which the head of state will meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican is “not yet confirmed.”
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Also this Wednesday, Posse, Caputo and Mondino will present in the panel “Country Strategy Dialogue on Argentina” on the main guidelines of the economic program, which will be moderated by the former president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Luis Alberto Moreno.
Posse will participate in the afternoon at the Media Leaders Breafing conference with the Argentine presidential delegation, at the Congreso Centre, Media Village.
Caputo will do so in a panel on “Latam economic realism”, in which debt in Latin America and the consequent fiscal pressures will be discussed.
And Mondino will be a panelist at the Dialogue of Ministers with Press Leaders, which will have Ricardo Ávila – from the Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo – as moderator; and later of Latin America’s Economic Realism, with the moderation of the former Minister of Finance of Colombia Mauricio Cárdenas.
Meanwhile, in a message published on his social networks, Milei highlighted yesterday that having chosen to fly by private airline to Davos allowed the State to “save about $392,000.”
“In fact, the way of traveling that has been chosen has allowed us to save about USD 392,000… This money comes from the efforts of Argentinians and it is our moral duty to take care of the mango even in the smallest details… If we take care of the coins, the pesos take care of themselves… VLLC!”, Milei published on her X account.
The Argentine head of state made that publication in response to a post from the “@PregoneroL” account, which expressed: “Milei traveling to Davos by commercial plane, like any normal person. Argentines have no idea of the millions of dollars in taxes that the president saved us with his austerity,” and he attached a photograph of the president on the plane raising his hands in his usual greeting gesture with his thumbs.
The Presidency also released material showing the president speaking and greeting passengers who were taking photographs with him on board the aircraft that was taking him to Germany.
Javier Milei on the trip to Davos on a scheduled plane.
The return of Milei and his entourage to Argentina will be on Thursday, at 3:55 p.m. local time (11:55 a.m. in Argentina), the time when he will board a flight to Frankfurt, and at 6:05 p.m. (2:05 p.m. Argentine time) from that German airport he will do the same. towards Ezeiza, where it will arrive on Friday at 7:55.