Argentine president in Angola to promote trade and exchange food for oil
Argentine President Cristina Fernández is on a three-day visit to Angola to promote trade and investments particularly exchanging food for the African country’s oil. Friday morning she is scheduled to meet her counterpart Jose Eduardo Dos Santos.
The President is accompanied by Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, Industry Minister Débora Giorgi, Agriculture Minister Norberto Yauhar and Public Communications Secretary, Alfredo Scoccimarro plus a delegation of 400 Argentine business people.
On her first day President Cristina Fernández met with members of the Organization of Angolan Women, a human rights group founded by mothers who lost their children and husbands during the civil war.
The Argentine president brief state visit is geared mainly to reach a deal for the exchange of food for Angolan oil, similar an accord with Venezuela. The former Portuguese colony has rapidly become the second largest oil producer of black Africa.
The deal is anticipated to have a good echo since Angola is highly dependent on expensive food imports and its agriculture sector has been ravaged by drought and the effects of the prolonged civil war with many un-cleared minefields and much ordnance which needs to be eliminated.
Cristina Fernandez is also expected to announce a 100-million dollars credit line to promote trade between the two nations' companies, according to Angolan state news agency Angop.
Angola is also in much need of foreign investment to develop infrastructure and help with the transfer of expertise and know-how. Its dependence on food imports has caused prices to skyrocket, making life in Luanda more expensive than Tokyo.
The south-west African country's main trading partners are the United States, China, Brazil and Portugal. Trade with Argentina has grown from 18 million to 150 million dollars from 2001 to 2010.
On Friday the Argentine president will visit the National Assembly and participate in a solemn session of the Legislative. She is also scheduled to open a fair of Argentine goods and technology where most of the 400 companies of the business delegation will be exhibiting.
President Dos Santos visited Argentina in 2005, a guest of then President Nestor Kirchner, the deceased husband of Cristina Fernandez.
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I hope the Angolans realise it'll be worth a few million free tonnes of food to them.
Haha very true
#5 No I think she looks lovely
These activists were often speaking out on human rights issues including poverty, the marginalization of whole communities, women's rights, corruption, brutality and oppression. Events in all regions highlighted their crucial role, and the need for global solidarity with them.”
Hmm, aren't most of these Argentina's chums?
I wonder if the real reason she is there is to look for a safe house?
Thank you Dream Team, De Vido, Kicilloff, Moreno...??? Moreno??? Wait a minute, isn't he INTERIOR comerce Secretary, what the hell is he doing in Angola????
What we need is a Senate Inquiry www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuzlwFXeW3A
Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., the most senior Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, presented a “sense of the Congress” resolution on May 10 that calls on the Obama administration to team up with European countries to suspend Argentina from the G-20 because of that country’s pattern of “outlaw behavior.”
THUMP
US State is working on getting WB, IDB to withhold funding until Arg submits to an IMF audit.
USCC is reviewing the legality of the seizure of BCRA reserves.
If all of these hits about the same time I wouldn't be surprised is CFK kills herself due to her bi-polar wackiness and general un balanced hyterical behavior.
@ 6 you'll love what's coming for Argentina, oh man, you'll do it, you'll see :)
If you are going to regularly post comments on this forum then please have the grace to answer my very relevant question.
-How does CFKs huge wealth and aspirations for wealth not contradict her supposed socialist ideals? How is this in line with her pursuit of a more egalitarian state?-
The president of Uruguay for example seemingly has a tiny fraction of her level of wealth. More importantly he doesn't seem to go looking for it.
Do you know her in person ?...talked with her face to face ?
The leader of the 100th most corrupt nation on earth meets the leader of the country rated 168th. Who will lie, cheat and fail to honour most agreements? A cheaters' tea party...
hahahahahahahahha. I hope they give a 3 month guarantee......
Hello? Anybody there?
Seems your are a little confused over things here.
First this is not Britain or any other puppet peripheral state you have putted your foot on so whatever your Moron Senator thinks or does is just to entertain idiots like you. Is like one Arg. senator asks to the govt. to force the exit of USA from the world trade system. Come one do whatever you want so we will have a lot to laugh and the Arg. govt will have a good excuse to expropriate Americans companies as already have done with JP Morgan, Repsol, etc. What US company would you like Arg. Start with? Exxon perhaps? GM? IBM? Kraft? Procter & Gamble? Microsoft? Uh! The list is very long I guess.
The Arg. govt already once had sized your plain do you want more humiliation?
@ British_Kirchnerist
Why UK’s MPs have to be mistreated like this by US moron corrupted politicians?
Can we name George Galloway governor of Malvinas?
1-He is British
2-Seem to put in place the stupid Americans
3-Seem to be very smarts to make look US senators like idiots
4-Sure his party is the opposed to Idiot Camoron.
We can save the world for a new war I guess and we will have not to exterminate some British after all.
George PM of Britain, umm sounds pretty good. Where can we contribute with some Quids for his campaign?
Hugo Chavez = CFK & Co
CFK & Co = Disaster for Argentina
CFK & Co even refused to comply with articles 47 & 49 of the IMF charter to combat terrorist financing and money laundering. I wonder why?....
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