Argentina

French presence

French diplomatic and consular situation: Embassy and Consulate-General of France in Buenos Aires. There are 13 consular agencies across the country.

French community: 12,600 on the register of French people living abroad (2025)

Visits

Recent visits include:

From France to Argentina:

• Laurent Saint-Martin, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and French Nationals Abroad (27-29 June 2025).
• Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic (16-17 November 2024).
• Stéphane Séjourné, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs (February 2024).
• Stanislas Guerini, Minister of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service for the inauguration ceremony of President Javier Milei (9-10 December 2023).
• Roxana Maracineanu, Minister of Sport, for the inauguration ceremony of President Alberto Fernandez (10 December 2019).
• Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic for the G20 (28 November-1 December 2018).

From Argentina to France:

• Javier Milei, President of the Argentine Republic, for the third United Nations Ocean Conference (9 June 2025).
• Javier Milei, President of the Argentine Republic, for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games (26 July 2024).
• Diana Mondino, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of the Argentine Republic (May 2024, 18-21 December 2023).
• Alberto Fernandez, President of the Argentine Republic (February 2020, May 2021, May 2022 and participation in the Paris Peace Forum in November 2022).

Cultural, scientific and technical cooperation

Culture, higher education and research are focuses of our bilateral relationship based on the cooperation agreement signed in 1964 and updated by a letter of intent signed in February 2016. The country is a regional scientific, technical and cultural relay point. 
Argentina is a very Francophile country and its intellectual and artistic elite boast a long-standing relationship with French culture. The Alliance Française of Buenos Aires leads a network of 54 Alliances in the country and, as one of the oldest, it celebrated its 132^nd anniversary in 2025.

France is the fifth-biggest host to Argentine students after the United States, Spain, Brazil and Germany. Students studying abroad benefit from a wide range of grants and innovative programmes fostering student exchanges. There are over 700 university agreements, including a mutual recognition agreement of diplomas signed in 2015.

Our cooperation, which has long been focused on social sciences and humanities, has now been extended to include higher technical education and engineering. Research and innovation are supported by active public policies, which have been translated into more than 100 bilateral research projects and 300 annual field assignments of French researchers.

Scientific collaboration between France and Argentina is extensive, as can be seen in longstanding programmes of over 30 years and a large diaspora of Argentine scientists in France, who have built very strong ties between French and Argentine schools, universities and research centres, adding to and structuring the institutional framework of our cooperation. France is Argentina’s leading scientific partner on a number of joint projects.

Other cooperation

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the only bilateral donor working in Argentina, opened an office in Buenos Aires in 2017. Its activities have three aims: i) to support ecological and energy transitions, ii) to support social, democratic and civic transitions, and iii) to conduct action of the AFD group via structuring partnerships.