After meeting with top Chinese businessmen, president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met today with her counterpart Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People to discuss new strategic agreements and to ratify the 20 bilateral deals signed by the two countries.
Ms. Kirchner walked into the meeting, without the wheelchair she had been using since she fractured her right ankle last December. After a floral welcome from Chinese students, the two head of states adressed the press, before heading to the Hebei room for the bilateral encounter.
Xi Jinping expressed his “satisfaction” for Ms. Kirchner’s recovery and the Argentine president thanked her host his “concern and interest” in her health. She also pointed out that right after her injury she had stated that the fracture would not “stand in the way” of her visit to China.
The Argentine president expressed her confidence that the meeting would reaffirm the “integral strategic alliance” between the two countries. The heads of state and their ministers are expected to sign 15 new deals, which add up to the 20 already signed last July, during Xi Jinping’s visit to Argentina.
Speaking in Buenos Aires, at the government house, Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich praised the president’s visit which he pointed out, will lead to financing for the creation of Argentina’s fourth nuclear plant, which would entail “a valuable increase in energy supply.”
He also praised the establishment of a branch of the local Banco Nación in Beijing
Source: Buenos Aires Herald