Obama meets Argüello, expresses 'joy' for CFK's recovery

Argentina’s Ambassador in United States Jorge Argüello delivered his credential letters to President Barack Obama, who expressed his “joy” for the positive results of his counterpart Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s surgery.

In the encounter, Obama also highlighted that the bilateral relationship has “meaningful opportunities for the future” after the strengthening of the bilateral bond in the last months.

Obama received Agüello with a warm “Buenas tardes, embajador” (Good evening, ambassador) at the White House in a rally in which the official was appointed as Extraordinary Ambassador and Argentina’s Plenipotentiary before the US.

During the meeting, Obama showed interest in Fernández de Kirchner’s health: “I’m glad everything turned out great,” the Head of State assured and added he has “a great passion for Argentina, a Borges and Cortázar reader.”

“Our bilateral relationship has a large history and we see important opportunities for the future. I’m sure that, with your support, we’ll reach our shared aims,” the president said.

The new Ambassador remembered that both countries had suffered “the attacks of international terrorism that affected innocent victims,” and highlighted that Argentina will continue “demanding justice” in order to “trial the instigators, perpetrators and authors of the violent attacks to the Israel Embassy and the Argentine Jewish community centre (AMIA).”