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The trip will run from October 31-November 6th.  This is the first trip that Urkullu will make to Argentina and the Southern Cone since taking office.  The trip will provide the Lehendakari the opportunity to hold meetings and get to know Basque communities in both countries.  Urkullu will participate in Semana Nacional Vasca 2018 in Mar del Plata coinciding with the local club’s 75^th anniversary.

Vitoria-Gasteiz. The Lehendakari will be accompanied by the Secretary General for Foreign Action, Marian Elorza; the Director of Foreign Relations, Leyre Madariaga and the Director of the Basque Community Abroad, Gorka Alvarez Aranburu.  Also supporting him will be the Delegates of Euskadi in Argentina-Mercosur, Sara Pagola and for Chile, Peru and Colombia, Rafa Kutz.

In Buenos Aires, in the area of culture and memory, the Lehendakari will visit the Museum Site of Memory (ESMA), a place for memory and Human Rights whose goal is to remember victims of the dictatorship (1976-1983O and condemn crimes against humanity.

On wednesday, he will lay a wreath at the Tree of Gernika that has been growing in the Juan de Garay Plaza, near the Casa Rosada, since 1919. The area has suffered a global remodeling last year, including the Tree's spot.  Urkullu will also host a reception for the Basque-Argentine community and its representative institutions.

On Friday, November 2, the delegation led by the Lehendakari will leave for Mar del Plata where they will join in the Semana Nacional Vasca 2018 events, as well as the Inter-Congress Meeting of Basque Collectivities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The next day they will join representatives of parliamentary groups of the Basque Parliament, in the Paseo Jesus de Galindez in honor of Basques who immigrated.

The delegation will also travel to Chile where gender equality will play a special role in their agenda.  The General Director of Emakunde (Basque Institute of Women) Izaskun Landaida, will join in on this leg of the journey for the Lehendakari to sign an agreement with the Chilean Minister of Women and Gender Equality, Isabel Pla. The General Director of Emakunde will also join in an agreement with the Foundation of Families, part of the network of foundations of the country’s presidency.

This is the seventh outing that the Lehendakari has made abroad during his tenure.  In each case, he has met with the Basque communities in each country visited.  The Basque Government, with the Lehendakari at the head, seeks to project the Basque Country strategy abroad, through institutional, political, economic, and cultural meetings as well as through alliances, the executive indicates.