After the departure of Diana Mondino of Chancery, he Government announced that it will open a investigation to identify the diplomats careers that promote “agendas enemies of freedom.” They seek to align internal geopolitical positions with the interests of the Milei administration. It occurs after the vote at the UN in rejection of the US embargo on Cuba.
As advanced Scope, The President’s Office announced this afternoon that the chancellor Mondino “has presented her resignation from the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship” and the current ambassador to the United States will take her place, Gerardo Werthein, who “will lead the continuity of the transformation in our country’s foreign policy.”
The Executive referred to the reasons that prompted the ejection of the former chancellor, in a message in which they highlighted the country’s position in defense of the “western democracies”, after Argentina voted in United Nations in tune with Cuba to reject the embargo that crosses the island by USA.
The Government will begin an audit to “identify drivers of agendas that are enemies of freedom”
The country “goes through a period of profound changes” and this new stage “demands that our diplomatic corps reflect in every decision the values of freedom, sovereignty and individual rights that characterize the Western democracies”, they pointed out. In this sense, they stressed that the Government “categorically opposes the Cuban dictatorship and will continue firm in its foreign policy against “all regimes that perpetuate the violation of human rights and individual freedoms.”
Following that line, the Office of the President announced that they will open a investigation to find those officials who are not aligned to the profile promoted by the Milei administration. “The Argentine Republic will defend the aforementioned principles in all international forums in which it participates and the Executive Branch will begin an audit of the career staff of the Foreign Ministry, with the aim of identifying promoters of agendas that are enemies of freedom“, they reported.
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Argentina’s vote in favor of Cuba at the UN triggered the departure of Diana Mondino
The chancellor Diana Mondino was fired from office by the president Javier Milei this Wednesday, after the unexpected vote in favor of Argentina to Cuba, in a resolution of the UN against the embargo of USA to the island. However, her management was strongly marked by some events that left her in the eye of the storm.
During the day on Wednesday, and unexpectedly, the Government of Javier Milei voted in the United Nations General Assembly (UN) against the United States economic embargo on the socialist republic of Cuba. The resolution was approved with 187 votes in favor, 2 against (United States and Israel) and one abstention (Moldova).
It is the first time since Milei’s arrival at the Casa Rosada that Argentina does not align itself with the North American government or the Israeli administration. In any case, this Wednesday was the 32nd time that the Argentine representation in the UN voted in this way.
The last of the scandals Mondino, meanwhile, it had taken place last week, when he had to deny that a release in which the Islands Mtolvinas were mentioned as “Falklands”, a fact he attributed to a “malicious version.”
After that publication, which included an exchange of accusations between the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense, the The name “Falklands” was deleted from that official communication.
Source: Ambito