September 30, 2007 (LPAC)--Speaking Sept. 27 at the Global Initiative gathering in New York organized by former President Bill Clinton, outgoing Argentine President Nestor Kirchner had some words of advice for the next U.S. President, and for a United States he referred to as "beloved."

Kirchner's remarks had a distinct Rooseveltian tone to them, and reflected ideas that Lyndon LaRouche has repeatedly discussed. The world, he said, "must dare to hold a great debate on ideas, so that from the relative truth of each of us, we can formulate a higher truth, that will allow us to arrive at the truth that will bind us all." He expressed his desire "that the United States become much closer to the region. It would be very important. This is a country whose closeness we value, and whose absence we feel when it distances itself" from us.

"In recent years," the Argentine President remarked, "we never felt we were supported by the United States...We had different visions of the solutions that had to be offered to the world. But, all of our efforts tend toward--and we're sure that future U.S. Administrations will also do this--seeking points of agreement with a region that will have to be very important for the United States of America, and that is all of America, all of Latin America."

Kirchner then underscored, "we really hope that we can come together with the United States in the task of building together, to be able to complement each other; and it's not the help that's so important, but being able to work together to jointly build a better society that we have no doubt our brothers and sisters here in the United States also aspire to."

President Kirchner minced no words in describing the "disastrous" effects that IMF and World Bank policy had had on his country. Chastising the Bush Administration, he noted that if "during the crisis of 2001-2002, the U.S. had responded differently to Argentina"--without the bludgeoning that followed its debt default--"the contradictions would not have intensified as they unfortunately did" in the country, or caused such dire consequences.