Argentinian Foreign Minister in Vienna

PeopleDiplomats ♦ Published: September 27, 2022; 23:04 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Argentine Foreign Minister, Santiago Andrés Cafiero, who is currently attending the 66th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna to strengthen Argentina's relations with the Agency, met with Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg. The exchange focused on the expansion of bilateral relations, as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its global implications.

Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg received his Argentine counterpart Santiago Andres Cafiero in Vienna. / Picture: © BMEIA Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äußeres / Gruber / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

During the conversation, Foreign Minister Schallenberg thanked his counterpart for Argentina's high-level participation in the IAEA General Conference. In doing so, he underscored the important role of the Vienna-based organization in the context of Russian attacks on the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya as well as nuclear threatening gestures by the Russian Federation. In…