Buenos Aires:

Argentina President Javier Milei on Wednesday sacked Overseas Minister Diana Mondino after the nation voted on the UN in favor of lifting the six-decade US embargo on Cuba, the presidency mentioned.

“The brand new international minister of Argentina is Mr. Gerardo Werthein,” presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni wrote on X, hours after Argentina joined 186 different UN members who voted in favor of lifting the embargo imposed on communist-run Cuba since 1962.

Werthein was beforehand Argentina’s ambassador to the US.

Solely two nations, the US and Israel, each allies of Milei, voted towards Wednesday’s decision, whereas one nation, Moldova, abstained.

Moments after Mondino’s sacking was introduced, Milei retweeted a put up by a lawmaker who mentioned she was “happy with a authorities that doesn’t help neither is an confederate to dictators. Viva #CubaLibre.”

Argentina has historically voted towards the embargo on Cuba.

Native media quoted international ministry sources as saying that whereas it was awkward diplomatically for Argentina to have opposed the US and Israel, the votes of Cuba and its allies can be wanted in any future resolutions on Argentina’s declare of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, a British territory.

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