Tag: Guillermo Borger

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Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 06:53 UTC

Argentina/Iran accord could just make it in Wednesday’s vote in the Lower House

Timerman again battled with the opposition and admitted he “will pay a very steep price for sponsoring the MOU”

The bilateral memorandum of understanding, MOU, between Argentina and Iran to investigate the 1994 AMIA bombing was cleared for debate by the Lower House committees on Tuesday and will be discussed on Wednesday at the floor. Foreign Minister Hector Timerman clashed with opposition lawmakers during his briefing over the case.

Friday, February 15th 2013 - 05:45 UTC

Argentine Jewish community rejects point blank agreement with Iran; full Senate debate on 21 February

Senator Filmus and Foreign minister Timerman and at the tense six hour hearing that left nobody satisfied

The heads of the AMIA and DAIA Jewish umbrella organizations, Guillermo Borger and Julio Schlosser, strongly rejected the memorandum of understanding signed between Argentina and Iran in order to create a truth commission looking to investigate the 1994 terrorist attack that left over 80 people dead and dozens injured.

Friday, February 8th 2013 - 05:04 UTC

Iran/Argentina agreement to Congress but Jewish community reject contents demand a new one

The Argentine Justice will not be obstructed; we are not giving up our sovereignty, said President Cristina Fernandez (Pic TELAM)

Argentine President Cristina Fernández announced she would send to Congress the recent agreement reached between Argentina and Iran in order to investigate the AMIA bombing in 1994, and assured that “the Argentine Justice will not be obstructed.”

Saturday, February 2nd 2013 - 19:55 UTC

Jewish organization rejects Argentina/Iran deal to resolve 1994 bombing

AMIA president Borger, Iran can’t be trusted; they deny the holocaust and “my mother has the concentration camp stamped in her arm”

Argentina’s leading Jewish organization, AMIA, contrary to a few days ago when meeting Foreign minister Hector Timerman, rejected the deal signed by the government of President Cristina Fernandez and Iran to create an independent international ‘truth commission” to investigate the 1994 terrorist attack on AMIA and demanded the redrafting of a new accord.

Monday, December 10th 2012 - 23:02 UTC

Jewish community protests for being kept on the dark on Argentina/Iran negotiations

Guillermo Borger described Iran as a ‘denialist’ state

The head of the Argentine-Jewish Community Centre (AMIA), Guillermo Borger, warned the government of President Cristina Fernandez that the organization’s members are concerned by the lack of information regarding ongoing negotiations with Iran over the 1994 terrorist attack on the AMIA headquarters, which killed 85 people.

Wednesday, October 31st 2012 - 20:22 UTC

Iran/Argentina dialogue ‘positive’ and will continue end of November, says Timerman

Argentine Foreign minister, “Wednesday session the last session but not the final”

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman announced at Government House in Buenos Aires that new negotiations between diplomatic representatives of Argentina and Iran over the investigation into the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack, will take place before the end of November.

Wednesday, October 31st 2012 - 04:51 UTC

Argentine-Iran dialogue is ‘over’, says Jewish community rejecting Teheran’s denial of any involvement

Israel insists that President Ahmadinejad and Iranians are “not reliable”

The president of the Argentine Jewish Community centre, AMIA, Guillermo Borger said that if Iran insists in rejecting any links with the 1994 attack in which 85 people were killed and 300 injured, the current dialogue between Argentina and Teheran on the issue “is over”.

Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

Argentine Jewish community recalls bombing that killed 85 in Buenos Aires

AMIA president Guillermo Borger was the only speaker at the touching ceremony

During the ceremony commemorating the 18th anniversary of the bombing at the AMIA Argentine Jewish centre in Buenos Aires, the entity’s president Guillermo Borger restated the claim for justice for the victims of the 1994 terrorist attack.

Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:01 UTC

Jewish community complains lack of progress in AMIA bombing investigation

AMIA president Borger: “17 years is too much, we can’t keep waiting”

Seventeen years after 85 people died and hundreds were injured in Argentina's worst terrorist attack, their relatives criticized both Iran and their own government Monday for failing to solve the case.

Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 17:41 UTC

Argentine Jewish organization denies any pact between Buenos Aires and Teheran

Guillermo Borger president of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association, AMIA

The Buenos Aires Jewish organization AMIA which suffered a deadly attack in 1994 denied the existence of an alleged pact (in the making) between Argentina and Iran which would put an end to the investigations related to the bombing in exchange for the resumption of trade links with Teheran.

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