Argentina Russia to enhance energy cooperation Argentine President

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner told RT TV channel on Thursday that she highly appreciated a video linkup with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

On Wednesday Putin and Kirchner held a videoconference marking the 130th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Argentina. The Argentine president said that even though it was a video conference there were not many difficulties with delays which could make conversations difficult.
"It was technologically and also politically perfect which is more important because there could be a lot of technology and no correct politics. There was technology and there were politics" Kirchner said.

In April Kirchner met with Putin during an official visit to Moscow. The sides signed a number of cooperation deals and said that the bilateral ties between Moscow and Buenos Aires were strengthening.

On October 25 presidential elections are schedule to take place in the country. According to the Argentinian Constitution Kirchner who has won two previous general elections cannot be re-elected for a third term.

Earlier this week Argentine Ambassador to Russia Pablo Tettamanti told Sputnik he believed that the diplomatic relations between the two countries would remain unchanged regardless of the outcome of the upcoming elections.

Argentina and Russia are committed to enhancing cooperation in the energy field Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said.

On Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Argentine leader held a videoconference marking the 130th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Argentina.

"Yesterday we spoke about oil energy activity which we will maintain activity jobs drilling investment" Kirchner said.

The president outlined common projects the two countries worked on such as Chihuido I hydroelectric and Atucha nuclear power plants as well as association between the countries’ energy companies.

"And we expect and we aspire to reach good cooperation because I believe this is very important" Kirchner stressed.

During Kirchner’s visit to Russia in April the Russian energy company Gazprom and Argentine's state-run YPF oil and gas corporation signed a memorandum on cooperation.

Last April the sides signed a preliminary deal to equip Argentina’s Atucha power plant with a sixth nuclear reactor.

Latin American information space dominated by the US media desperately needs independent alternative news sources President of Argentina said.

"This is the big problem which we have in Latin America – US networks that report what they want they misinform what they want conceal deform distort. We need many voices which is one of our greatest arguments when we focus on creation of the new media law – existence of many voices" Kirchner said.

The Argentine president lauded the RT television channel calling it a new voice of Latin America. RT’s Spanish-language service was launched in 2009. Since 2014 it has significantly expanded its broadcasting across Latin America

A survey conducted by ICM Research exclusively for Sputnik and released in May showed that over half of those people polled in the United Kingdom France Germany and Greece would like to get global news from sources other than mainstream Western media.