Paraguayan football player left Ukraine after management of the Argentine Foreign Ministry

José Ariel López, who had joined the Real Pharma club less than a month ago, left Ukraine and is in Moldova for Romania, where he will stay at the Argentine embassy in that country, official sources said. I am grateful to the authorities of Argentina and Paraguay,” the player said in statements to the sports press. From the Foreign Ministry, in charge of Santiago Cafiero, they indicated that “Paraguay requested consular cooperation from Argentina”, within the framework of the Consular Cooperation Mechanism in force in Mercosur. The Paraguayan footballer was in Odessa requesting to be evacuated, so “we worked in coordination between the Argentine consul in Romania, Carlos Vallarino, and the Paraguayan consul who is in Bern, Switzerland, Juan Mongelos, who has jurisdiction over Ukraine and Romania.” “Lopez traveled by bus from Odessa to the border with Romania. The Argentine embassy in Romania sent a vehicle with a driver to pick him up when he crossed the border, to move him to Bucharest,” they reported. Likewise, from the Foreign Ministry they affirmed that “it is a successful case of the operation of consular cooperation between Mercosur countries. Where one of the countries does not have consular representation, the State that has it provides assistance to the national of the other country,” they said. This morning, also managed by the Embassy of Argentina in Ukraine, Argentine footballers Claudio Spinelli and Francisco Di Franco, who play in the Ukrainian league, were evacuated from that country. This was confirmed by the director of Consular Affairs of the Foreign Ministry and coordinator of the assistance of Argentines in Ukraine, Laura Cachaza.Se argentine striker Claudio Spinelli, 25, Oleksandria player of the Ukrainian Premier League, ex- Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata; and Francisco Di Franco, 27 years old and ex-Boca Juniors, who has been in Ukraine for the longest time: in 2017 he arrived in Karpaty and since the 2019/20 season he plays in Dnipro.

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