US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan Comes to Argentina to Meet Alberto Fernández

The United States National Security Advisor, Jake sullivan, will travel to Brazil and Argentina this week as part of a tour of the region to meet with leaders of America’s key allies outside of NATO. The arrival in Buenos Aires will take place next Thursday and influential administration official Joe Biden is due to meet with President Alberto Fernández on Friday.

“In Argentina, they will discuss strengthening strategic ties regarding bilateral and regional priorities, including pandemic recovery, regional climate summit, shared economic growth and security in our hemisphere and globally.spokeswoman Emily Horne said, according to an official statement.

Sullivan will travel accompanied by the director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere Juan González -who was already a few weeks ago in Buenos Aires-, the director of technology and national security Tarun Chhabra, the director of Cybernetics Amit Mital, and the Director of the Office for the Western Hemisphere of the Department of State, Ricardo Zuniga.

Last May, González He was in Buenos Aires and after his meetings with Argentine officials, he confirmed that the United States was willing to donate vaccines to Argentina as well as that they would support the Monetary Fund to organize a rescue plan for the economies hardest hit by the pandemic. . Following that pledge, Argentina last month received 3.5 million vaccines from Moderna – the largest shipment ever to the region – and that same Monday afternoon, the IMF confirmed direct global aid of more than $ 650 billion, of which $ 4.3 billion will receive the Fernández administration.

Jake Sullivan is an extremely reliable Biden official, was Barack Obama’s deputy assistant, and was the then vice president’s national security adviser. Previously, he was director of the State Department’s political planning cabinet and deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During his tenure in government, Sullivan “led the negotiations in the initial talks that paved the way for the Iran nuclear deal and played a key role in the US-initiated negotiations that led to the Gaza ceasefire in 2012. He also helped define Asia’s rebalancing strategy. State Department and the White House”.

According to the official United States government statement, “after his tenure in government, Sullivan was a senior member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he helped design and design a bipartisan foreign policy project for the middle class.” .

He has taught at Yale Law School, the University of New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College. He co-founded and co-chaired the advisory board of National Security Action, a non-profit organization focused on national security, and served on the advisory boards of various organizations related to foreign policy and national security. He was the chief political adviser to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in 2020.

Sullivan holds a BA in Political Science and International Studies from Yale College; an MA in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School. He was assistant to Supreme Court Judge Stephen Breyer and Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second District Court of Appeal. “He was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is a proud graduate of the Minneapolis Public Education System. He and his wife Maggie Goodlander live in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ”the statement said.

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