MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Differences are with UK government “with the British people everything is fine”

Cristina Fernandez proud that a worker will now run the ILO

Argentine President Cristina Fernández praised the appointment of British citizen Guy Rider as the head of the International Labour Organization because for the first time in history, the president of the International Labour Organization, ILO is a worker.

This week the ILO voted for a British former trade union leader Guy Rider as the next secretary general of the UN organization.

Cristina Fernandez also pointed out that Argentina’s problems are with the British government and not with the British people and workers.

“Look how things are changing in the world: for the first time in history, a worker is going to be head of ILO” said President Cristina Fernandez who revealed that Argentina had supported the nomination of Ryder.

The president said she feels “full of pride” about the event and indicated that in the first round of voting Argentina had committed its vote for the Latin American candidate, Colombian Vice president Angelino Garzón.

However since he did not receive sufficient votes “our country supported Guy Ryder, who is a worker” and this was how Argentina had planned its strategy.

“Guy Ryder is paradigmatic, he is well prepared for the job and very solid intellectually”.
She then went on to say there is no animosity with the British people, “everything is fine with them”

“I say this so you can see that our differences are only with the British government because they do not respect the United Nations. When it comes to the British people and workers, everything is fine with them” said Cristina Fernandez in reference to the current Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty claim that has both nations at odds.

The Argentine president made the statements during a ceremony to celebrate the awarding of the 250,000 micro-credits to small investors and assured that “this model, so heterogeneous and horrendous to some, keeps creating jobs and hope. Something a society should never lose”.

However Cristina Fernandez did not mention the current controversy surrounding the dollar and chose to insist on vindicating her government model by assuring that “we’re now living in an Argentina that is fairer than the one we had back in 2003, although we know that there’s still a lot more to be done.”

“We know what we did and what we must still do. A lot of people focus on what still needs to be done, but no one focuses on knowing how to do it or doing it,” she said.