President Alberto Fernández met Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso in their first bilateral meeting following a diplomatic incident in March over a former Ecuadorian minister convicted of corruption. According to official reports, the presidents agreed to “preserve the brotherly relationship that has historically united both countries.”“I met with the president of Ecuador. The brotherhood that unites our peoples is historic and we must continue to strengthen it.”Me reuní con el presidente de Ecuador, @LassoGuillermo. She had been living as a guest in the Argentine embassy since 2020 and was granted diplomatic asylum there in 2022, along with her son, whose father is Argentine. “It is worth mentioning that despite the period without ambassadors, relations between Argentina and Ecuador continued at a consular level,” they said.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 19, 2023 00:11 UTC