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Viewing cable 07BUENOSAIRES360, ARGENTINE PERSPECTIVE ON KIRCHNER'S VENEZUELA VISIT

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07BUENOSAIRES360 2007-02-23 20:29 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Buenos Aires
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DE RUEHBU #0360/01 0542029
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 232029Z FEB 07
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7370
INFO RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHINGTON DC
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHINGTON DC
RUEHC/DEPT OF LABOR WASHINGTON DC
RHMFIUU/HQ USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
RUEHAC/AMEMBASSY ASUNCION 5962
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 1086
RUEHMN/AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO 6202
RUEHSG/AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO 0205
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 5809
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ FEB SAO PAULO 3182
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO 2166
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 000360 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
WHA FOR WHA/BSC, WHA/AND AND WHA/EPSC 
E FOR THOMAS PIERCE 
EB/CBA FOR FMERMOUD, DENNIS WINSTEAD 
EB/IFD/OIA FOR WSCHOLZ, MTRACTON 
EB/IFD/OMA FOR AHAVILAND AND ASIROTIC 
PASS NSC FOR JOSE CARDENAS 
PASS FED BOARD OF GOVERNORS FOR PATRICE ROBITAILLE 
PASS USTR FOR EEISSENSTAT, SCRONIN 
TREASURY FOR RALBANO AND LTRAN 
USDOC FOR 4322/ITA/MAC/OLAC/PEACHER 
US SOUTHCOM FOR POLAD 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EINV ECON ENRG EPET AR VZ
SUBJECT: ARGENTINE PERSPECTIVE ON KIRCHNER'S VENEZUELA VISIT 
 
Ref: Buenos Aires 311 
 
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Summary 
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1. (SBU) Deliverables from President Kirchner's February 21-22 visit 
to Venezuela included $750 million in bond financing, a $135 million 
rescue package for emblematic Argentine dairy cooperative SanCor, a 
raft of largely symbolic bilateral MOUs that included creation of a 
regional development bank and joint oil exploration in the Orinoco, 
and some compelling economic nationalist theater.  Local media 
coverage of Kirchner's trip was extensive, highlighting his comment 
that Argentina "will not contain Venezuela."  Media also favorably 
noted Kirchner's meeting with Venezuelan Jewish community leaders in 
the face of overt GoV support for Iran.  GoA contacts emphasized to 
us that Argentina's relationship with Caracas remains eminently 
pragmatic and largely commercial; that we can expect continued 
substantive but low key cooperation with the U.S.; but that in a 
pre-election year where populist appeals to the center-left will be 
an integral part of the Kirchner administration's campaign strategy, 
we can also anticipate periodic populist expressions of "Bolivarian 
solidarity" with Chavez (who is reported to be planning a return 
visit to Buenos Aires in early March).  END SUMMARY 
 
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Seventeen Agreements... 
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2. (U) President Kirchner visited Venezuela February 21-22, 
accompanied by Planning Minister De Vido, Economy Minister Miceli, 
Foreign Minister Taiana, Santa Fe province Governor Obeid (where 
dairy cooperative SanCor is based), Finance Secretary Chodos, and 
numerous other federal government officials, parliamentarians and 
Argentine agricultural private sector representatives.  All 
delegation events were built around the signing of a series of 
bilateral GoA/GoV accords in Puerto Ordaz, with the exception of 
Kirchner's separate meeting with representatives of the Venezuelan 
Jewish community. 
 
3. (U) The two Presidents signed seventeen separate agreements 
during the visit, including joint cooperation agreements between the 
two countries' Ministries of Planning, Economy, and Foreign Affairs, 
and specific agreements on science/technology cooperation.  They 
also signed agreements on phyto-sanitary standard cooperation, 
electricity technology cooperation, low-income housing construction 
technology cooperation, and communication technology cooperation. 
In addition, MOUs were signed for the transfer of Argentine 
compressed natural gas technology for bus and car transportation. 
According to local media reports, President Chavez plans to repay 
Kirchner with his own visit to Argentina, possibly in early March. 
 
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Development Banks and Oil Deals 
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4. (SBU) Kirchner and Chavez also signed an MOU to create a "Bank of 
the South" development bank that, according to local media, would be 
designed to supplement and eventually supplant "conditioned and 
paternalistic" multilateral development bank (World Bank and IDB) 
infrastructure project funding in the region. (Note: GoA contacts 
report no/no discussion during the visit of plans for either GoV or 
GoA capital contributions to the new development bank. End Note). 
As anticipated (reftel), Kirchner and Chavez also signed an 
agreement to have GoA national oil company ENARSA jointly exploit 
with GoV-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA) an upstream 
exploration block in Venezuela's Orinoco region.  (Note: Independent 
energy analysts here see any GoA/GoV petroleum exploration agreement 
 
 
 
 
in Venezuela as largely symbolic, given that ENARSA brings little to 
the table in the way of financial resources.  End Note).  Local 
media is also reporting that, as a result of this successful visit, 
Argentina will allow Chavez to expand PDVSA activities in Argentina 
by facilitating the purchase of local oil company RHASA, together 
with a network of 150 gasoline stations in Buenos Aires. 
 
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Debt Financing and SanCor Dairy Cooperative Rescue 
--------------------------------------------- ------ 
 
5. (SBU) The most significant single announcement was the planned 
February 26 launch of a $1.5 billion second tranche of the "Bono del 
Sur."  The bond will be a bundle of $750 million of Argentine Boden 
15 bond, with a $750 million Venezuelan fixed-coupon issue. (Note: 
As in the prior Bono del Sur issue, there will be no cross default 
clauses and international financial markets will trade the two 
issues independently.  End Note).  Finally, an agreement was signed 
whereby the GoV's state-owned Banco Nacional de Desarrollo Economico 
y Social de Venezuela (BANDES) will provide a $135 million 
assistance package to Argentina's second largest dairy cooperative, 
SanCor, in exchange for long term payments in the form of powdered 
milk and technology transfer.  (Note: The financially troubled diary 
cooperative was to have been sold to a Soros-linked investment fund 
before this GoV offer was accepted by SanCor in the fall of 2006. 
End note). 
 
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Polemics: Argentina Will Not "Contain" Venezuela 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
 
6. (SBU) During the agreements signing ceremony, Kirchner commented 
"we are and will be absolutely respectful, both of us, of the 
relations and internal situations in our countries...It is said that 
some countries should 'contain' others, that Lula and I should 
'contain' Chavez.  That is absolutely wrong.  Together with our 
brother, President Chavez, we are building integration in South 
America for the dignity of our peoples."  Local Argentine media took 
Kirchner's remark as a response to comments made during the February 
8-9 visit to Argentina of Undersecretary Burns and Assistant 
Secretary Shannon (septels) that the U.S. could work well with 
 
SIPDIS 
governments like Argentina and Brazil but that Venezuela was 
"another matter."  In response to Kirchner's comments, local media 
reports that Chavez said "they have failed and will fail -- the 
travelers from the North who are coming to the South to try to 
divide us, to sow discord." 
 
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Comment:  Economic Nationalism on Display 
---------------------------------------- 
 
7. (SBU) Local media coverage of Kirchner's visit was extensive, 
highlighting his "we will not contain Venezuela" comment as a 
gratuitous populist slap at the U.S. that will have little impact on 
ongoing and pragmatic GoA efforts to improve bilateral GoA/USG 
relations.  Media also favorably noted Kirchner's meeting with 
Venezuelan Jewish community leaders, in the face of overt GoV 
support for Iran, as another step in GoA efforts to smooth some of 
Chavez' rough foreign policy edges. 
 
8. (SBU) The Venezuelan rescue package for dairy cooperative SanCor 
was originally presented by the GoV last fall as a helping hand by a 
"brother Bolivarian republic" to prevent an emblematic Argentine 
dairy cooperative from falling under U.S. control.  Similarly, local 
media and some GoA Economy Ministry contacts speculate that 
President Kirchner's February 6 criticism of Embassy advocacy on 
behalf of a U.S. investment fund's efforts to purchase a minority 
stake in Argentina's electricity transmission grid was linked to 
 
 
 
 
this Kirchner/Chavez meeting.  "It was a throwaway gesture for 
Chavez, who applauds any affirmation of economic nationalism and 
especially those that attack Washington," said one GoA Economy 
Ministry official.  Such populist theater may play well here in a 
pre-election year, but the cost to Argentina in terms of attracting 
needed foreign investment capital is real. 
9. (SBU) Beyond the SanCor rescue, the theater of economic 
nationalism played out in the largely symbolic agreements signed on 
the creation of (yet another) regional development bank and of joint 
ENARSA/PDVSA oil exploration in the Orinoco.  The GoV agreement to 
purchase $750 million of GoA debt -- on top of $3.5 billion it 
purchased last year -- was arguably the only concrete GoV 
deliverable that President Kirchner took away from this visit.  The 
GoV's PDVSA, in turn, gets expanded access to the Argentine retail 
petroleum market.  On their return from Caracas, our Planning, 
Economy and Foreign Ministry contacts emphasized that Argentina's 
relationship with Caracas remains eminently pragmatic and largely 
commercial.  We can expect continued substantive but low key 
cooperation with the U.S.  But, in a pre-election year where 
populist appeals to the center-left will be an integral part of the 
Kirchner administration's campaign strategy, we can also anticipate 
periodic expressions of "Bolivarian solidarity" with Chavez. 
WAYNE