Alberto Fernández has started a tour of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and the Vatican

The official intention of this trip is initiate the renegotiation of the payment with the Paris Club for approximately $ 2,400 million, which expires on May 30 and refinancing of the debt of 45,229 million dollars with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

In the same vein, Guzmán toured Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Russia in April, and met the President of the Paris Club and Director General of the French Treasury, Emmanuel Moulin.

On this occasion, the The first destination of the delegation is Lisbon, where the delegation will arrive on Sunday at 2:05 p.m. local time (10:05 in Argentina) and on the same day, the head of state will hold a meeting with his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. On Monday, the delegation will participate in a lunch hosted by the Prime Minister, Antonio Costa, and at 4 p.m. (12 p.m. Argentinian) the flight that will take them to Madrid will leave.

the On Tuesday, the President will travel with his companions to the Palacio de la Zarzuela, where he will meet King Felipe VI. Then he will hold a working meeting at the Palacio de la Moncloa with his Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez, who will also offer a lunch in honor of the whole delegation; and at 16 (11 from Argentina) the delegation will leave for Paris.

On Wednesday, in the French morning, Fernández will host a meeting with businessmen at the Argentine Embassy in Paris. Then, you will be received at the Eliseo Palace by President Emmanuel Macron, and the flight to Italy will leave at 5:30 p.m. local time (12:30 p.m. from Argentina).

Thursday, in the state of Vatican City, the President will visit Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace, where he will hold a private morning audience with the highest authority of the Catholic Church. Later, Fernández will have lunch with his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinale Palace, then a working meeting, at the Chigi Palace, with the President of the Council of Ministers, Mario Draghi.

The Argentine delegation will return to Buenos Aires on Friday, on a flight that will leave Rome airport at 1 p.m. local time (8 in Argentina).

It’s him President’s seventh official trip abroad, after the precedent in Europe and Jerusalem on January 23, 2020 to participate in the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, alongside 40 other world leaders.