The Brazilian finance minister fernando haddadone of the pillars of the Lula da Silva government today, asked the US Treasury Secretary, Janet YellenTHE need to “help” Argentina.
And even brought it up like a “humanitarian issue”according to reports in Brazil about the rendezvous both held in the Japanese city of Niigata, Japan.
“We are very worried for what is happening our neighbor Argentina. And one of the things that brings me to the G7, on the recommendation of President Lula, is to make the G7 and the G20 aware of the specific conditions in Argentina right now. We bring this concern to a very obvious humanitarian issue,” Haddad told reporters at the previous meeting of the G7 group of countries.
Haddad’s request to powerful Yellen came a week after Alberto Fernández met with Lula, who, while making fun of the fact that his colleague had gone to Brazil to ask for money to overcome the crisis and returned “with empty ones”he promised he would to “help take the knife off Argentina’s neck”, in clear reference to the pressures that the country has with its debt maturities before the International Monetary Fund.
Although at the moment there is no news on the agreement that the government was seeking with Brazil for Brazilian exporters to finance Argentine importers through a credit line at a time when the country is short of dollars, Haddad will see Minister Sergio Massa again later this month or early June in China.
It will be in meeting of the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), where Argentina is also seeking help.
The press accompanying the minister said so Yellen was “surprised”, but there are still no American versions of the bout. The Treasury Secretary has already received Massa when Alberto Fernández visited Joe Biden.
“One of the reasons why President Lula is coming to the G7 – just as Fernández was invited last July, now the industrialized world wants to listen to the Brazilian – is to address this issue (of the situation in Argentina),” Haddad said, according to State .
“It is essential for us that this problem is addressed. And President Lula will come next week with the same concern, I am anticipating what he himself will bring,” he said, suggesting that Lula will also tell his peers about Argentina, a subject he also addressed during his trip to China weeks ago.
Source: Clarin
