Guzmán closes Moscow tour with international economic agenda and Sputnik V vaccines

Confirmation of meetings scheduled for tomorrow with Russian officials came during last week’s tour of Germany, Italy, Spain and France, and This body in Russia will be joined by Presidential Advisor Cecilia Nicolini, with whom they will advance in the deepening of the relationship of strategic cooperation with Russia..

Guzmán will hold one of the main meetings with his Russian finance counterpart, Anton Siluanov, and with representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reported official sources.

Regarding the reasons for his trip, Guzmán explained that “One of them is the discussion taking place at the global level on how to allocate the increases in liquidity generated around the world, thanks to positive global policies.”, an availability which “should go to help low-income countries but also middle-income countries”.

“Middle-income countries should be able to access some of this liquidity, as they face asymmetric conditions compared to advanced countries. They also face serious social problems,” the official said in a newspaper interview. La Nación and Clarín. the end of his tour.

In this sense, Guzmán pointed out that “Russia has an important role in the international economic architecture when it determines the conditions which will involve the distribution of liquidity”, taking into account the fact that “65% of the world population, which today finds itself in a situation of poverty, resides in intermediate countries”.

The minister also indicated that the hearing will allow him to continue “building a consensus” to strengthen the negotiations that Argentina is leading with the International Monetary Fund for the restructuring of its debt for 45 billion dollars.

Finally, he will discuss the agenda related to the possibility of building a production plant for the Sputnik V vaccine in Argentina, for which the Ministry of the Economy has a technical role, in a negotiation led by the Presidency of the Nation and the Ministry of health. .

The national government considered positive the tour that the minister began last Sunday in Berlin and then continued in Rome, Madrid and Paris, with the aim of obtaining the support of the countries of the Old Continent in the negotiations that Argentina will have to confront with the IMF for a new financing program and indebted to the Paris Club.