Tag: Hector Timerman

• Thursday, November 15th 2012 - 02:16 UTC

  Contacts with Ghana navy help restore water and power supply to ARA Libertad

  

  Ghana port authorities, GPHA, on Wednesday re-established water and power supply to the Argentine Navy flagship ARA Libertad retained in Tema, according to naval sources from Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2012 - 00:07 UTC

  Argentine deadline to Ghana for release of ARA Libertad

  

  Argentina warned on Monday that if by Tuesday Ghana does not release the retained Navy frigate ARA Libertad it will file a claim before the UN Law of the Sea International Tribunal in Germany.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2012 - 04:07 UTC

  South African minister admits a second Argentine navy vessel could be impounded

  

  When Argentina still has not recovered from the impounding of the Navy’s flagship, ARA Libertad, retained in Ghana, another piece of bad news was confirmed in Pretoria on Friday when South African Foreign minister admitted that a second navy vessel, ARA Espora, docked in Simonstown was exposed to a similar fate.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2012 - 20:22 UTC

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

  

  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.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 - 06:38 UTC

  ARA Libertad: Argentine president pledges to never yield to ‘vulture’ funds

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernández in a national broadcast blasted ‘vulture funds’ retaining the impounded training frigate ARA Libertad in Ghana and pledged never to yield the dignity and sovereignty of the country to these funds.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 19:20 UTC

  UN Security Council says ARA Libertad incident does not endanger world peace

  

  Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman began Monday morning his round of contacts in New York to lobby for the release of the Navy’s training frigate retained in Ghana but suffered a first setback when he met with the president of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Gert Rosenthal.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 04:25 UTC

  ARA Libertad: Timerman at UN for round of contacts beginning with Ban Ki-moon

  

  Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman is scheduled to begin on Monday a round of contacts with top United Nations officials to address the issue of the training frigate ARA Libertad, impounded in Ghana.

• Sunday, October 21st 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  Argentina evacuates impounded frigate; Monday Timerman begins lobbying at the UN

  

  The Argentine government ordered on Saturday the evacuation of the naval training frigate ARA Libertad impounded in Ghana by international creditors, following the warning made on Friday that complaints would be taken to the UN over the controversy.

• Saturday, October 20th 2012 - 06:17 UTC

  Argentina calls on Ghana to “assume its responsibility” in the release of ARA Libertad

  

  Argentina demanded that Ghana “assumes its responsibility” of freeing the Navy flagship ARA Libertad, which remains impounded in the African country’s port Tema over claims of US funds and warned Argentina could take the case to the United Nations, because negotiating with ‘vulture funds’ is not an option.

• Friday, October 19th 2012 - 05:19 UTC

  Argentina’s flagship trapped in Ghana by creditors with no political solution in sight

  

  The saga of the Argentine Navy flagship ARA Libertad retained in Ghana seems to have no short term political solution as the government of President Cristina Fernandez was expecting, while in Buenos Aires the head of military strategic intelligence resigned and there is mounting pressure on the Ministry of Defence.