(Adnkronos) – Sixth international mission of 2025 – with stops in Italy and the Vatican – for the Argentine president Javier Milei, expected tomorrow in Rome and then in Spain, France and Israel. The tenant of the Casa Rosada will be the first Latin American president to be received by Pope Leo XIV, as highlighted by the Clarin website, according to which the president will travel with a small delegation composed, among others, by his sister and general secretary of the presidency, Karina Milei, the Foreign Minister, Gerardo Werthein, the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni and the Minister for Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello.
Tomorrow at 2.30 pm, the Argentine newspaper’s website specifies, Milei will attend the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the Argentine energy company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (Ypf) and Eni to increase production at the Vaca Muerta field and other Argentine sites. Milei, as Palazzo Chigi confirms in a note, will then meet Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at 7.30 pm. For Clarin it will be a “private dinner”.
On Saturday the Argentine president will be received in the Vatican in a private audience by the new Pontiff, while in the afternoon he will fly to Madrid, where on Sunday at 2.30 pm he will participate in the closing session of the Madrid Economic Forum, an event sponsored by Bit2Me, a cryptocurrency platform. In recent months Milei has been accused of fraud for promoting the $Libra cryptocurrency on his X account, the value of which had skyrocketed and then plummeted.
In the evening, the Argentine delegation will leave for Nice, where the following day Milei will meet his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, before flying to Israel, the last stop on his mission characterized by an intense program of appointments. On Tuesday, the president will meet his counterpart, Isaac Herzog, with whom he will hold a joint press conference. He will then see the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The day will conclude with a visit to the Wailing Wall, in front of which he was moved to tears in February last year.
On Wednesday Milei will visit the Holy Sepulchre, meet the families of Hamas hostages, inaugurate a memorial in honor of the victims of the October 7 attack and give a speech to the Knesset, where he will also receive the 2025 Genesis Prize, also known as the ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’.
On Thursday he will speak at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and participate in the ceremony for the launch of the Buenos Aires-Tel Aviv direct flight. In the afternoon, Milei will board the Arg-01 again for Madrid, where on Friday he will receive the ‘Salamanca School’ award and on Saturday he will hold a meeting at the Argentine embassy with some exponents of the Spanish business world before returning to Buenos Aires.
