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Montevideo, March 19th 2024 - 03:29 UTC

Mercosur

  • Tuesday, July 22nd 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Kirchner's visit and Argentina's image in the US.

    The much awaited meeting between Argentine President Nestor Kirchner and US President George Bush will take place Wednesday July 23 at 14:15 hours in the White House. Although scheduled for half an hour, this first meeting could last longer since “both presidents have much in common”, remarked James Cheek a former American ambassador in Argentina currently visiting Buenos Aires.

  • Sunday, July 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Kirchner meets Bush with the IMF in mind

    Argentine president Nestor Kirchner who will be visiting Washington next Wednesday July 23 said he shares with President George Bush several goals: fighting corruption, drug traffic and terrorism. However he anticipated that he also wishes United States will support Argentina in its negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, IMF.

  • Friday, July 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    US retail prices rise

    United States retail prices in June rose 0,2%, but if volatile items such as food and energy are excluded, inflation remained flat.

  • Friday, July 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    FAM emergency in Bolivia

    The Bolivian Livestock Health Service declared a sanitary emergency in six of the country's nine regions following the confirmed report of outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in two of them.

  • Friday, July 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Mercosur, “a protocol of intentions”

    In a most controversial statement Brazilian Agriculture Minister Roberto Rodrigues said this week in Sao Paulo that “trade integration in Mercosur is a fallacy; it's a simple protocol of intentions because since the Asunción agreement in 1991, it has been unable to harmonize macroeconomic policies and its four members don't have a converging vision towards third countries”.

  • Thursday, July 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    EU-Mercosur talks stalled

    The European Union this week offered Mercosur to open its government purchasing markets as part of the ongoing free trade association talks. However agriculture which is Mercosur main interest and the main stalling point, did not even figure in the EU proposal.

  • Thursday, July 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Chirac promises full support for Argentina

    As happened with Britain and Germany, and in Brussels, visiting Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was promised this Wednesday in Paris, support by his French counterpart President Jacques Chirac in Argentina's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and with the recovery of the country's economy.

  • Thursday, July 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    IMF praise for Uruguay

    The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) praised Uruguay after having completed the third review under the Stand-By Arrangement for Uruguay anticipating the immediate availability of a disbursement of SDR 145.7 million, about US$204 million. The current Stand-By Arrangement was initially approved on March 25, 2002 in an amount of SDR 594.1 million (about US$823 million) for a 24-month period. The arrangement was augmented by SDR 1.16 billion (about US$1.6 billion) on June 25 2002 and by SDR 376 million (about US$521 million) on August 8, 2002.

  • Wednesday, July 16th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    Breaking News

    Headlines:
    Brazil targets another record crop;Chilean pork with dioxin;
    Euro-zone lowers growth estimate.

  • Wednesday, July 16th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

    US economy “sluggish”

    Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in his twice yearly speech to Congress said the central bank was cutting its 2003 growth estimate for the United States economy by 0,75 percentage point, to between 2,5% and 2,75%.