The government appointed Gustavo Zlauvinen as vice-chancellor and seeks to settle an internal conflict.

After several days of uncertainty and a hard internal struggle, the government appointed Gustavo Zlauvinen as vice-chancellor in place of Daniel Raimondi. The outgoing leader maintained a relationship with Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie at the last minute.

In this way, an uncertain panorama that has been lived up to now in the San Martin Palace since last week has been cleared up, when Raimondi presented to Faurie his irrevocable resignation.

As confirmed at Infobae Qualified sources of Government, Zlauvinen arrived this Friday from a trip to Poland and in the coming hours the decree with his designation will be published. Until now, this career officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has served as Undersecretary for Foreign Policy and is a man of good relations with Faurie and Casa Rosada.

Zlauvinen has been in his current position since November 2017, was born in Rafaela, Santa Fe, is 58 years oldHe studied at San José School, Rivadavia School, and Santa Fe Normal School High School. He then studied at the Faculty of Economics and then upgraded to a diploma in international relations. He joined the Foreign Affairs Department of the nation and in 1988, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The new Vice-Chancellor was the representative of the Director General of the IAEA at the United Nations and the Director of the IAEA Office at United Nations Headquarters. He has also worked in the Directorate General of Disarmament and Nuclear Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina; from 1989 to 1990, he was a member of the Argentine Commission for Export Control of Military Equipment; and from 1990 to 1991, he was Director of International Relations at the Argentinian Space Agency (CNIE).

From February 2000 to August 2001, Mr. Zlauvinen was a member of the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Argentina. During his career in the diplomatic services, Zlauvinen was delegated from Argentina to several conferences and meetings on disarmament, nuclear energy and arms control.

Recently, he participated in a meeting preceding the United Nations High Level Conference on South-South Cooperation, to be held from 20 to 22 March in Buenos Aires. He stated bluntly: "Argentina is already playing a leading role in the subject, as it has developed more than 165 cooperation projects in 38 countries, with neighboring countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, but also carried out cooperation projects in Africa and Asia. "

From then on, she will have the difficult task of reconstructing internal relations within the Chancellery and performing all the ceremonial duties that Faurie does not fulfill because of her role elsewhere. The designation of Zlauvinen aims to put an end to the difficult internal conflict between Faurie and Raimondi concerning differences in the internal work program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.