WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2020 — His Excellency Sidney Collie, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative to the OAS, paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Carlos Raimundi, Ambassador of Argentina to the United States and Permanent Representative to the OAS, today at the Embassy of Argentina, 1600 New Hampshire Ave, N.W. The two envoys discussed matters of mutual interest to their countries, including matters related to the upcoming OAS General Assembly.
Ambassador Raimundi presented his credentials to the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, during a virtual ceremony on August 17, 2020.
Noting that he came to the OAS with a firm commitment to equality, Ambassador Raimundi said at the time, “For us that value is fundamental. It is absolutely necessary to build a platform of equality in a minimum threshold of rights. Poverty is not a fact of nature, it is a fact that responds to the mismanagement of public resources through the economy and through politics,” according to an article on the OAS website.
For his part, Secretary General Almagro welcomed Ambassador Raimundi and stated that he “fully agrees with what you have expressed regarding the need to create better conditions of equality in this hemisphere. Being the most unequal region of all is definitely not an accolade, it is not an achievement of which we can be proud. Rather the complete opposite.”
Before assuming his position as Permanent Representative, Raimundi was a national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires and Chair of the Mercosur Joint Parliamentary Commission, among other positions. Ambassador Raimundi is also a lawyer and a university professor.
