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Afternoon tea with Hillary confirmed for Monday
Ambito Financiero
February 25, 2010

Cristina de Kirchner will meet with Hillary Clinton on Monday, in a sidebar to the visit that both will make to Montevideo for the inauguration of the president-elect of Uruguay, Jos Mujica. The confirmation came yesterday from the embassies of both countries in their capitals. H ctor Timerman and the spokesman for the U.S. delegation in Buenos Aires didn't say where in Montevideo the meeting will take place. Timerman said that "an agreement was reached for a bilateral meeting" between the chief of state and the envoy of Barack Obama, and said that the meeting will be held on Monday at 2:45pm, a little after Cristina de Kirchner arrives in Uruguay after opening the new Congressional year.

The U.S. secretary of state will make her first tour through Latin American beginning on Sunday, with stops in Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica and Guatemala, until March the 5th.

One of the possible axes of the meeting will be the issue of the Falkland Islands after the United States declared itself "neutral" in the controversy with the United Kingdom and said that it's available to both parties to act as a "mediator".

Great Britain is the main military ally of the United States, which acted decidedly in its favor in the South Atlantic war of 1982 and both have a seat in the Security Council of the United Nations, its determinant organ.

Also participating in the meeting will be Ambassador Timerman and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana.

I will travel to Latin America next week," Hillary confirmed yesterday during a hearing to present the State Department budget for 2011, while not giving details of her visit.

Last December, the highest official of the United States for Latin America, Arturo Valenzuela, was not received by either the President or Taiana, who at the time was at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. Then, the government said it was upset for the official's statements, in which he echoed the unease over the "lack of legal security" in the country which had been expressed by U.S. investors.

On the itinerary of the trip is a visit to Chile where she will meet with the leaders Michelle Bachelet (the departing incumbent) and Sebasti n Pi era, who takes office on March 11th. The details of this meeting were in doubt on the agenda that was released yesterday because Bachelet and Pi era will be at the Mujica swearing-in as President, so the meeting could happen in Montevideo. For reasons of security of its high-level officials, the governments are being tight-lipped and even deliberately confusing in giving out details until the last minute.

Wednesday, March 3rd, Hillary Clinton will be in Brasilia, where she will meet with President Luiz In cio Lula da Silva, and with Foreign Minister Celso Amorim. In Costa Rica, Clinton will attend a meeting of the Senderos economic forum on Prosperity in the Americas, a U.S. initiative about stimulating trade and competitiveness in the region, and will meet separately with Oscar Arias and his successor, Laura Chinchilla. In Guatemala, finally, the secretary of state will visit with President Alvaro Colom, on Friday, the 5th.

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