Biden welcomes Boric to the White House and jokes about age: “You are very young”

The American president, Joe Bidenexchanged gestures of complicity this Thursday with his Chilean counterpart, Gabriel Boricduring a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House and even joked about his age, telling him: “You are too young”.

Biden, 80, and Boric, 37, and who made history by being elected in 2022 as the youngest president of the Pepperthey started the meeting at The White House exchanging jokes about their age and talking about how old they were when they were first elected to public office.

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“I was 29 years old″Biden said, referring to the age he was when he won the 1972 election to become Delaware Senatorposition he assumed at the age of 30.

Boric responded with a smile to Biden’s words and assured that both “share a similar path”. “I hope to go as far as you“, said the Chilean leader to the American.

At 80 years old, Biden is the oldest president in the history of the country U.S. He announced that he will run for re-election in 2024 and, according to surveys, one of the issues that most worries voters is the president’s advanced age.

If elected in 2024, Biden would be 86 years old when he leaves the White House at the end of his second term.

In addition to the initial jokes, the two leaders reiterated their desire to strengthen the bilateral relationship, which occurs precisely when the two countries celebrate 200 years of bilateral relations and after 20 years of validity of the agreement were completed in January. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United States and Chile.

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Differences with Israel and Hamas

One of the thorniest issues between Biden and Boric is the war between Israel It is Hamassince they both have very different positions.

Boric did not refer to Israel in his statements at the beginning of the meeting at oval room and, in front of the media, he limited himself to mentioning “some issues that are happening in this world, which is quite complicated nowadays”.

However, when a reporter shouted at him whether he would speak to Biden about his concerns about Israel, Boric nodded in affirmation.

As indicated this week by the Chilean Government spokesperson, Camila ValejoBoric was willing to address this issue with Biden.

Boric, staunch defender of Palestinian causesummoned the Chilean ambassador to Tel Aviv for consultations on Tuesday, José Carvajalin response to “Israel’s violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza strip“, as the Chilean Executive then indicated in a statement.

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Chile, where almost 500,000 Palestinians live, recognized Palestine as a statefree, independent and sovereign”in 2011, during the first Conservative government Sebastian Piñera (2010-2014).

This is the first meeting between the two leaders in the Oval Office of the White House. This is, however, the second meeting since the first time they saw each other, on the banks of the IX Summit of the Americas from 2022 on The angels.

The meeting takes place one day before the first Alliance for Economic Prosperity in the Americas Leaders Summit (APEP), an initiative that Biden launched in 2022 during that Summit of the Americas and which aims to combat economic inequality and promote regional integration.

Source: Elcomercio

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