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Montevideo, April 27th 2024 - 23:44 UTC

Tag: Diana Mondino

  • Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 20:28 UTC

    Argentine Foreign Minister responds ironically to UK Foreign Secretary's Falkland Islands visit

    Diana Mondino and Javier Milei with David Cameron in Davos.

    The visit of UK Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron to the Falkland Islands has sparked an ironic response from Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino. Mondino took to social media to thank Cameron for “including Argentina in his visit to the region,” suggesting he visit Buenos Aires on a future occasion.

  • Monday, January 29th 2024 - 19:39 UTC

    Former Argentine combatants allege “illegal flights” to the Falklands

    CECIM highlighted a flight “made by the Bombardier Learjet Matriculation LV-GQR of the company Pacific Ocean S.A. that left on Thursday, January 25 from the San Fernando Airport [Buenos Aires]”

    The Center of Former Malvinas Islands Combatants (CECIM) La Plata raised concerns about alleged “flights of dubious origin” to the Falkland Islands, emphasizing “potential risks to national sovereignty.” The former combatants called attention to the Argentine government's silence on logistical operations allegedly violating UN resolutions, particularly the Zone of Peace and Cooperation in the South Atlantic (ZPCAS), established in 1986.

  • Saturday, January 27th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Milei: Cabinet crisis, diplomatic clash with Colombia and Argentina “closer” to dollarization

    Economy Minister Luis 'Toto' Caputo said the taxation chapter of the Omnibus Law bill was left for later and admitted he would be taking over Infrastructure after Ferraro's sacking

    While Argentine President Javier Milei said Friday that his country was closer to dollarizing its economy, Minister Luis 'Toto' Caputo announced that the taxation part of the so-called Omnibus Law bill was being spared for a later date in a move to have the legislation passed as soon as possible to achieve a zero deficit. However, the Chief of State's plans clash with other conflicts within the cabinet and also in diplomatic matters.

  • Friday, January 26th 2024 - 15:11 UTC

    Will Javier Milei Upend Argentina’s Foreign Policy?

    President Javier Milei with Foreign Secretary David Cameron at Davos

    By Thiago de Aragao (*) Mere weeks after taking office, Argentine President Javier Milei has already picked fights with the United Kingdom and China, demonstrating his “anarcho-capitalist” approach to foreign policy. The complex reality of international diplomacy and economic interdependence requires a far more pragmatic stance.

  • Thursday, January 25th 2024 - 10:19 UTC

    Uruguay and Argentina agree to move on with River Plate dredging

    “The deepening of regional integration is a necessary tool to achieve higher levels of development,” Mondino and Paganini said in a joint statement

    Foreign Ministers Omar Paganini and Diana Mondino agreed Wednesday during a one-on-one meeting in Asunción (Paraguay) that Uruguay and Argentina needed to move forward with the dredging of the 14-meter access channel to the port of Montevideo. Argentina's Mondino and Uruguay's Paganini met before the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) in the Paraguayan capital.

  • Thursday, January 25th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

    FMs of Paraguay, Argentina discuss Paraná waterway toll

    “It is becoming clear that there are a series of works for which there is a cost,” Mondino told reporters after conferring with Ramírez

    Foreign Minister Diana Mondino of Argentina and Rubén Ramírez of Paraguay discussed Wednesday in Asunción the issue of collecting a toll for the use of the Paraná waterway, the binational Yacyretá hydroelectric plant, and other bilateral matters in a sitdown on the sides of the Mercosur gathering.

  • Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 19:18 UTC

    Argentina and UK explore economic ties and Falklands resolution in Davos meeting

    Milei mentioned that the discussions didn't delve deeply into the Falklands matter, but they framed it as an agenda item. He expressed a perspective on resolving it through a Hong Kong model

    Argentine President Javier Milei and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron met at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, signalling a commitment to enhance bilateral trade relations and address the dispute over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. Both nations engaged in a conflict over this territory in 1982, when Argentina invaded the South Atlantic islands. Since then, the South American country has maintained its claim to sovereignty.

  • Saturday, January 13th 2024 - 11:30 UTC

    Argentine FM holds meeting with Chinese envoy to soothe ties

    Mondino and Wang dismissed press reports about alleged tensions between the governments of Xi Jinping and Javier Milei

    Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino met Friday with Chinese Ambassador Wang Wei. During the encounter, both diplomats agreed on the importance of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership signed between the two countries ten years ago, and reaffirmed the principle of one China in reference to Taiwan's separatism. However, there was no mention of the currency swap worth US$ 6.5 billion Argentina was expecting to receive.

  • Wednesday, January 10th 2024 - 11:21 UTC

    China and new Argentine government find areas to soothe relations

    China has opened its market to a list of 143 products from Argentine agro-business

    Argentine foreign minister Diana Mondino is proving to be an efficient peace maker. Despite president Javier Milei aggressive rhetoric towards the Beijing regime during and after the electoral campaign, Ms. Mondino seems to have managed a working understanding with the Chinese government.

  • Wednesday, January 10th 2024 - 10:28 UTC

    Milei holds talks with German and Canadian heads of gov't

    Milei's conversations with Trudeau and Schoolz were deemed “positive,” according to Casa Rosada sources

    Argentine President Javier Milei Tuesday held successive telephone conversations with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to deepen his government's international outreach. Also participating in the conversations was Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino.