France’s Emmanuel Macron will make a long-shot bid this weekend to convince Argentine President Javier Milei to help preserve the international order ahead of a key world summit.

Macron will meet Milei just after the libertarian traveled to Florida to effusively congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump, and just before the Group of 20 summit in Brazil next week. The French leader will try to persuade Milei to join efforts to protect the current consensus on international affairs and the environment as the world prepares for Trump’s return to the White House, a senior Elysée official said . Macron’s call is urgent given Trump’s disbelief in multilateralism and his contempt for climate and social issues, a second official said.

An Argentine official confirmed that the French had signaled that these topics would be high on the agenda of the Macron-Milei talks.

Macron has his work cut out for him in Buenos Aires. On Thursday, at the seaside resort of Mar-a-Lago, the Argentine president attacked the “old, crumbling regime” which he said includes “supranational organizations.”

Speaking before the president-elect of the United States and others, he added: “The political caste, the establishment, the swamp, or whatever you want to call it, it is for us a cathedral of material and spiritual poverty. »

To this end, Argentina is already “reassessing” its climate change strategy and reconsidering its participation in the historic Paris agreement, although no decision has been made, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday. Milei Foreign Affairs, Gerardo Werthein, to the New York Times in an interview.

Earlier Thursday, Milei’s negotiating team walked out of the annual United Nations climate conference taking place in Azerbaijan, just four days after the start of the summit that runs through Friday. In the run-up to the G20 summit, Milei angered diplomats from around the world in Brazil by refusing to sign a text on gender equality. Milei called climate change “another socialist lie” last December.

The libertarian hopes a second Trump administration will tip the scales in Argentina’s favor at the International Monetary Fund, just as the country seeks a new deal to replace the existing $44 billion program. The Argentine leader has also grown closer to Musk – the two have met at least three times this year, and the billionaire has said his companies are looking for ways to invest in Argentina.

Macron has long presented himself as the protector of a multilateral system in which the rule of law guarantees economic and social progress.