The chancellor of Argentina, Diana Mondino, This Thursday he tried to reduce the tension with Colombia and with Mexicoopened based on statements by Javier Milei, and argued that the opinions expressed between presidents do not imply the breaking of any diplomatic relationship.
“In no way have relations with Colombia been broken. He is a president who doesn't like what anyone else says. The relationship between countries is very long-term and much superior to that which the presidents of each country may have.“Mondino said Thursday night in an interview with the TN channel.
“The relationship between countries is very long-term and much superior to that which the presidents of each country may have.”
“In the diplomatic world there are several stages, but here it is the president of a country who does not like what the president of another country says,” he indicated.
Mondino added that, “regardless of whether the president does not like what others think with data, it is not an issue that will affect long-term relations.”
The president of Argentina, Javier Mileicalled his Colombian counterpart a “terrorist murderer”, Gustavo Petro, and “ignorant” to the Mexican, Andrés Manuel López Obradorin an interview with the American channel cnn in Spanish, which will be broadcast on Sunday, but of which a preview was released this Wednesday.
“In no way have relations been broken with Colombia”
Diana Mondino assured that the relationship between both countries is “superior to that of the presidents of each country” and refused to apologize: “Petro was indeed a terrorist.”https://t.co/UgSv4IW2UV pic.twitter.com/MBTyhHiL7n
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Colombia demanded an apology from the president, something that the chancellor questioned, while requesting: “Let's calm this down because it is not an issue that has to escalate in any way.”
“The Colombian people and the Argentine people have worked together; we have a lot of trade between the two countries,” he recalled.
Mondino asserted that it is not “an issue of the State, but of people,” since, he stated, “the Twitter accounts (today X) are personal.”
“We have to lower the decibels of this because it leads to nothing,” he added.
This Thursday, the Colombian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Government “repudiates statements made by Mr. Javier Milei, president of Argentina (…) in which he expresses himself in a degrading manner against the first president of the Colombians, the respected Mr. Gustavo Petro”.
“This is not the first time that Mr. Milei offends the Colombian president, affecting the historical relations of brotherhood between Colombia and Argentina,” recalls the Colombian Foreign Ministry.
Milei, leader of the La Libertad Avanza formation, has already expressed harsh criticism of López Obrador and Petro in the past, just as he has confronted the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua and the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with those who are at the antipodes due to their ideological thinking.
*With AFP and Efe
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