This will be Gustavo Petro’s agenda in the United States: he will meet Joe Biden on Thursday April 20

For a week, starting on the morning of Sunday, April 16, Colombian President Gustavo Petro will fulfill certain commitments in the United States. Among them, his first official meeting with the President of the United States, Joe Biden.

The Colombian Head of State will visit certain regions of the North American country, among which, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C.

Gustavo Petro, during his visit to this foreign territory, will be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Álvaro Leyva; the Speakers of the Senate and House (Roy Barreras and David Racero, respectively); Defense Minister Iván Velásquez; the chief of staff, Laura Sarabia; the Minister of Justice, Néstor Osuna; and Ambassador Luis Gilberto Murillo.

This Sunday, as we know, the head of the historical pact political movement He will fulfill several commitments of a private nature, so it is unclear what he will do in the days following his visit. On Monday, for example, he is responsible for delivering a speech at the opening session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He will be accompanied by the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Li Junhua and Rosemary LaneActing Head of the Indigenous Peoples and Development Unit of the same organization.

The Colombian President that day will also share with Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, and Lachezara Stoeva, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Likewise, he agreed to have lunch with analysts, diplomats, academics and businessmen at the center of Thought Council of the Americas.

On Tuesday, Petro will be at Stanford University in San Francisco, California. There he will participate in the conversation that this academic institution has agreed to call “The challenges of climate change, economic growth and social inclusion that have historically hindered development in Latin America”. Later the same day, the Colombian Head of State will meet with Michael McFaul, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute.

On Wednesday, April 19, Gustavo Petro will be in Washington DC to address the plenary session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS). A day later, Thursday, he will appear before the United States Congress for a meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

After that, he will be in the House. This same Thursday, the President of the Republic of Colombia will fulfill his commitment to his American counterpart, Joe Biden, at the White House. The two will share the oval expedition; that is to say in the main office.

Agree with Karine Jean-PierreWhite House press secretary, the meeting will aim to discuss “joint efforts to combat climate change, combat drug trafficking, address our regional migration challenge and promote democratic values ​​and human rights and work in the region and in the world”.

“I thank the President of the United States for his invitation. This is a key moment to strengthen relations and mutual cooperation between the two countries, not only in the fight against drug trafficking but in the protection of the Amazon, climate change and rural development,” said the President of the Republic of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, through his profile on the social network Twitter.

After meeting with the American president, the Colombian head of state will meet Nancy Pelosi, one of the main leaders of the American Democratic Party who recently left the presidency of the House. Finally, on Friday April 21, Petro will be with businessmen and multinational executives invited by the Wilson Center, the Atlantic Council, the Institute for Peace and Inter-American Dialogue.