Overview
- Defense Minister Carlos Alberto Presti departs Saturday and is set to arrive in Washington on Sunday, with formal meetings beginning Monday.
- Presti is scheduled to meet Monday with Joseph M. Humire, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere, to advance a multidomain capabilities agenda.
- Before the Pentagon meeting, he will consult Argentina’s permanent representative to the OAS, Carlos Bernardo Cherniak, to reinforce the multilateral track.
- His program includes a meeting with Argentine ambassador Alec Oxenford and an OAS decoration ceremony on Tuesday.
- The executive plans to submit the Miami understanding to Congress for legislative review and rejects reports that the U.S. asked Argentina to send naval units to the Strait of Hormuz.