The President will receive German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the end of January

President Alberto Fernández will receive at the end of January the German Foreign Minister, Olaf Scholz, who will visit Argentina in the framework of a tour that will also take him to Brazil and Chile and that will serve to analyze the possibilities of expanding bilateral trade, the flow of investments, and financing in various projects, it was officially reported today. At the end of the month the chancellor of Germany is coming,” spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti said this morning at her regular Thursday press conference on Scholz’s upcoming arrival in Buenos Aires, where she will hold a bilateral meeting with the Argentine head of state. Sources from the San Martin Palace reported that the German chancellor will remain in the country for two days, on January 30 and 31, as part of a tour that will take him to Brazil and Chile first. Scholz will be accompanied by an official delegation of approximately 70 people, which will include German businessmen and journalists who will cover his trip to South America.It will be the third opportunity that Fernández will meet with the German chancellor, after the meetings that both had in May and June of last year in Germany, where they analyzed the impact that the war in Ukraine has been causing on production, distribution and the global food market, and where they also discussed the climate change agenda, food and energy security. According to sources from the San Martin Palace, Chancellor Scholz’s visit will serve to analyze possibilities of “expanding trade and investment, as well as financing in various projects.” Both countries maintain an “excellent bond and promote agendas that highlight multilateralism and dialogue as key tools, with shared visions on different issues,” they stressed in dialogue with Telam Before Scholz, Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa will visit Argentina as part of a tour that includes other countries in the region. The diplomat will arrive in Buenos Aires on January 10 and will hold a bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero, within the framework of the 125th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Argentina and Japan.Sources from the San Martin Palace, affirmed that they will seek to “deepen both the bilateral agenda and that corresponding to multilateral areas.” sources from the San Martin Palace informed this agency. From the Government they hope that the visit of Hayashi Yoshimasa will help “continue working on the Strategic Partnership” and serve for both administrations to explore the “possibility of moving towards a global strategic partnership, as it maintains with Brazil and Mexico, bearing in mind common values, growing cooperation and exchange of visions” on the global context, the sources said.

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