France invited Argentina to the G-7 summit, the small group of developed countries

The administration of Mauricio Macri He still benefits from the presidency of the G20 summit last year. And according to this heritage France has decided to invite Argentina to the table of deliberations of the G-7, the group of the most developed countries of the world, which will meet this year in Biarritz..

Although this year the presidency of the G20 is in the hands of Japan, Argentina still belongs, with Germany, to the troika of the countries that make up the group of leaders of this group of developed countries. In this context, the Government of Emmanuel Macron invited two ministers from Argentina to participate in the deliberations preceding the G-7 Presidents Summit and it does not rule out the addition of Macri at the August meeting of heads of state as the observer.

"Argentina has a very important relevance in the world after the success of the G20 summit and the French government is interested in making its position known on some G-7 issues," he said. Infobae the ambbadador of France in Buenos Aires, Pierre Guignard confirming the invitations taken.

The French diplomat confirmed that his country would invite representatives of the Argentine government, Macron being the host of the next summit of the conference. G-7 will feature the presidents of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. In Canada, at the last G7 meeting, everything ended well: Donlad Trump decided to start the debate, pulled out of the climate change deal and faced the remain heads of state for its extremely protectionist attitude. .

The official invitation that France sent to the Argentine government concerns two meetings before the summit of heads of state in August.

The first of these meetings is to discuss in the G-7 the equality of women in work and in the daily context; the focus on women entrepreneurs and women's participation in politics, among others. For this, France will invite the Minister of Social Development Carolina Stanley the debates that will take place in May in Paris. Argentina has been convened with six other countries outside the smaller group of more developed countries of the world.

Ambbadador Guignard stressed that "all of Argentina's contributions to the G20 on the debate on the role of women today will be very useful at G-7 conferences".

On the other hand, the second dialogue meeting of the G7 summit will consist of evaluating education as a development model and France would like to invite a government official from Argentina. It is estimated that it could act the Minister of Education Alejandro Finocchiaro although it is not yet defined. In addition to Argentina, Singapore and Estonia were called to this meeting.

As reported by the French ambbadador to Infobae The idea of ​​the G7 meetings is to bet on a global multilateral scheme and to debate issues such as the fight against inequality, the fight against terrorism, the environment and the role of women today. hui.

"We do not rule out that Macron invites Macri to the G-7 presidents' table of debates as an observer, but as these meetings are held in Biarritz in August and that, knowing that he there will be an election period, we still do not know what will happen, "he said. Guignard

On the other hand, The bilateral meeting between Macri and the French Prime Minister on April 26 in Paris has been confirmed. This will be the third meeting of the two presidents and so far, the work program is very tight although it is known that Macri will go with a group of businessmen.

For the ambbadador of France, relations between the two countries go through "a great moment" and this is reflected in the good agreement of the heads of state. Macri and Macron met in France in January 2018, then in Buenos Aires at the G20 summit. They will meet again in April in Paris.

Macri will travel to France before his state visit to Belgium, where a busy work schedule also awaits him and where the question of the agreement postponed between the European Union and Mercosur will occupy a good part of both visits.