Billionaire Soros meets Cristina Fernandez and exchange ideas of world affairs
Argentine President Cristina Fernández met on Monday with billionaire investor George Soros at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York, before her speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. The meeting was held on an “open agenda” and lasted for an hour.
Cristina Fernandez highlighted that the investor anticipated Argentina has a “promising future due to its agrarian capacities.” She also stated, after the encounter, that they spoke about “the agriculture in the contemporary world and stressed Argentina's role as a main actor”.
“I was very much interested in hearing his opinion on what is going on in the world”, said the Argentine leader.
Asked specifically about the possibility of Soros or his companies investing in Argentina, Cristina Fernandez said it “was not the main issue of the exchange”, but did not confirm or deny the matter.
Cristina Fernandez later met Egypt’s new president Mohamed Morsi but skipped a dinner that President Barack Obama hosted for his fellow leaders at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and instead visited the Evita Peron exhibit at the Argentine consulate in New York.
Argentine ambassador in Washington Jorge Arguëllo said that the trip to the US centres round “President Cristina Fernández visits to the academic world” in reference to scheduled trips to Georgetown and Harvard Universities.
According to Argentine diplomatic sources, the trip is being described internally as pared-down or “austere”, without the same level of public appearances normally associated with the Argentine President. During the flight Cristina apparently spent her time studying documentation on the Argentine and global economy.
Official sources commented that the Argentine President would speak at 3.30pm (4.30pm Argentine time) Tuesday after her counterparts from Rwanda and Switzerland.
“In terms of the UN, the President plans to speak regarding her vision of the global financial and economic system, and the importance of the shifting of focus from old to new actors in reference to the growing importance of the developing nations,” added Ambassador Argüello.
After her UN speech, Cristina Fernandez will participate in an event at Georgetown University in Washington DC on Wednesday, in which she will inaugurate an academic course space focusing on Argentina, which will hold regular forums aimed at improving relationship between Argentina and the US.
At the end of her stay, the President is expected to visit Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the final act of her official visit will be a presentation to students and professors at Harvard University on Thursday.
While Cristina Fernandez conducts her official activities, Foreign Minister Timerman is also expected to have a busy schedule this week, filled with bilateral meetings with UN counterparts from Israel, Russia, Italy, Algeria, Holland, Pakistan, Portugal, Sierra Leone and Slovenia.
Despite Jewish opposition to such a meeting, sources claim Timerman has already scheduled a meeting with his Iranian counterpart.
Commenting on suggestions that this might be the case, Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Palmor said: “Any country that seeks to maintain bilateral contact with Tehran must be aware of the danger they are approaching,” adding “terrorist Iran is stronger than ever.”
The Israeli representative also suggested when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks, “he should be met with an empty hall,” to indicate “a clear message sent by the international community to the regime”.
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Cristina Fernandez later met Egypt’s new president Mohamed Morsi but skipped a dinner that President Barack Obama hosted for his fellow leaders at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel................
Somebody in her staff Thinks like Think ...... :-)))
Isn't that the global equivalent of hiding behind the couch when the rent man knocks?
Spending the evening at the consulate.... sounds like fun
stop spamming
As for dinner with the fence man, no dice,
No support over the Falklands, no accepts of lunch.
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GS may well end up buying and selling that country .
Chuckle chuckle (c) JB
“We have taken these positions because we believe that freedom and self-determination are not unique to one culture. These are not simply American values or Western values – they are universal values”.
“ individuals should be free to determine their own destiny, and live with liberty, dignity, justice, and opportunity.”
You are right, CFKC is going to look very bad if she goes ahead with her speech and revealing her desire to colonise the Falklands. If she had any sense she would order a re-write.
I read it at the FT. It will also be available to watch at the UN site. It was an excellent speech.
If Miss Whiny-Pants gets up and starts bleating about colonising the Falklands she is going to show herself as a self-centred, narcissistic, domestic-league leader, rather than someone with a place on the world stage.
Going against a primary position of the UN and cosying up to Iran? Oh dear. They should sack the political strategist.
has she spoken yet..
ElaineB
Usefull idiots will believe everything what comes out of Obombo's mouth.
for other fools here, not that “mittens romney the vulture” is any different.
@27 yeah, soros is such an angel, sure..
(create/be part of the part of the problem, come with the solution = soros)
I like more this from Mr Obama:
This week the OAS General Assembly at its meeting in San Salvador passed by unanimous consent, and Washington signed, a “draft declaration on the question of the Malvinas Islands”.
“In doing so, the United States sided not only with Buenos Aires, but also with a number of anti-American regimes including Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua”, said The Telegraph.
The declaration which calls for Argentina and Great Britain negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands is a position which London has long viewed as completely unacceptable and “also comes in the wake of increasing aggression by the Kirchner regime in the past 18 months, including threats to blockade British shipping in the South Atlantic”.
AHAHAHAHA poor deluded ex empire.They are FINISHED and do not want to accept it....Who cares...
Nothing has changed and nothing will change.
“The meeting was held on an “open agenda” and lasted for an hour”
I didn't know they rented rooms by the hour at that particular hotel........... I wonder how much KFC charges?
but you languagé is not English english !
maybe yoù lèarned it in Chùbut !
So, now we know.
As stand up routines go, it needed a bit of work. As a serious political speech intended to make the world sit up and take notice........ Not even close.
I particularly like the bit where the camera took in the rest of the General Assembly where the delegates were either absent ( judging by the mostly empty seats ) or talking amongst themselves.
I don't even think that the translator believed a word of wht she was saying, I'm sure that she was trying not to laugh as she put that rant into English.
The majority of her speech was from 'Economic for Dummies' she read on the plane. And reminding everyone that Argentina made the biggest default in history. (At least they hold a trophy for something).
What I got from the whole speech was that she is very afraid. Two reasons. First, she relied on growth to sustain Nestor's economic policies and that is drying up. She knows it is going to get a lot worse because of the global crisis. Second, she spoke about civil unrest when the economy fails. She knows her people are unhappy and what is coming.
your långuagè is not US English !
if i åsk US jårgon ånythings ,yoü cån't know them.
webtv.un.org/
Same shit different day
Did anybody tell you that Soros A jew himself has sold jewish people during WWII by giving to the Gestapo locations of Jews hiding from the Nazis, and that For food and who knows what else. This was CONFIRMED by him in a TV interveiw with the excuse that “what do you expect from a hungry Jewish boy during a war”? Naive Crisitina, you will find yourself stripped naked before you can blink an eye.
Now that you are calling Chavez a “dear friend” the only one missing on you list of close friends is Ahamedinejad. Do you really think everybody is stupid? it will all slamp back in your face and your name will go down in history as the president that brought Argentina to it's knees.
Tell me who are your friends and I'll tell who you are.
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