Pope Leo XIV and President Javier Milei stood side by side in the Salón Blanco, the White Hall of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, on Sunday, November 8, for the official photographs of the state welcome.
“En estos momentos se produce la toma de imágenes oficiales y el saludo protocolar entre el señor Presidente de la Nación y su santidad, el Papa León XIV,” the ceremony announcer said. In English: “At this moment, the official photographs are being taken, and the protocol greeting between the President of the Nation and His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV.”
The two leaders stood before the Argentine coat of arms, flanked by the flags of Argentina and the Vatican and by grenadiers of the presidential guard. After the photographs, the announcer said, the President and the Pope left the White Hall together.
The welcome at the Casa Rosada came on the first day of the Pope’s visit to Argentina. Milei had greeted him on the tarmac at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery earlier in the afternoon, and the day’s program was to continue with a meeting with the country’s authorities and the diplomatic corps at the Palacio Libertad.
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