Alberto Fernández: “Middle-income countries like Argentina look more and more like poor countries”

President Alberto Fernández participated this Friday morning in the St. Petersburg Economic Forum (SPIEF) headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. In this context, he spoke of the challenges caused by the pandemic in the world, and in particular addressed “middle-income” countries, including Argentina.

“Poverty, lack of work, the needs of a far from developed world have increased in the pandemic. I’m talking about middle-income countries, including Argentina, countries that are treated like developed countries but look more and more like poor countries. And there, the international community must take measures which have to do with the potential development of these countries.“, raised.

Fernández reiterated his view of the debt burden on these types of savings. “It is very difficult to prosper with wacky debts, huge fees and deadlines. are not conducive to growth and development of our communities, ”he stressed.

The sentence is not fanciful. It is closely linked to the negotiations that the country is entering into with the International Monetary Fund and the Paris Club.

In this context, Fernández added: “It is time to train that capitalism as we knew it until the pandemic, did not give good results, it generated inequalities and injustices”.

“If we want to build another capitalism, it must be a capitalism that does not forget the concept of solidarity. Because if the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that no one is saved alone and that there may be a time when we can the weakest and the weakest tremble and fall in front of a virus.“, Concluded the president during his participation in the forum nicknamed the” Russian Davos “.

Later, Fernández and Putin will join a video conference in which they will announce that local production of the Sputnik V vaccine will begin soon.

The two leaders will participate in the video conference as well as the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on which Gamaleya depends, Kirill Dmitriev, and Marcelo Figueiras, president of the Richmond laboratory.

Argentina will import the antigen to manufacture Sputnik V and then carry out the formulation, filtering and packaging of the product which will supply the country and also, in the future, the Latin American market. Richmond’s intention is that once all the details are oiled up, they can be worked out. about two million doses per month.

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