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Montevideo, April 28th 2024 - 16:43 UTC

Tag: Uruguay

  • Thursday, April 22nd 2010 - 03:23 UTC

    Taiana calls Gualeguaychú activists to reconsider position and lift pickets

    Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana has a non pleasant task

    Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana called on Gualeguaychú activists that keep international San Martín bridge blocked for more than three years to “reconsider their ways of action, mostly after the International Court of Justice ruling”.

  • Thursday, April 22nd 2010 - 03:11 UTC

    Cristina and Mujica to address Court ruling’s effects next Wednesday

    Both leaders want a quick normalization of relations

    Uruguayan President Jose Mujica and his Argentine peer Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are to meet next Wednesday afternoon in Buenos Aires in what is to be the first encounter after The Hague International Court's ruling on Botnia paper mill was made public Tuesday.

  • Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 21:20 UTC

    Mujica and Mrs. Kirchner to address “bi-national relations and pickets”

    The San Martin international bridge blocked by environmentalist pickets

    “There are no miracles; we feel cool about the decision”, said Uruguayan president Jose Mujica following the International Court of Justice ruling which means there will be no relocation of the Orion pulp mill which besides does not contaminate, as was claimed by Argentina when it presented its case back in 2006.

  • Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 21:11 UTC

    “Argentina’s environmental hypocrisy”

    Dr. Wayne Dwernychuk RP Bio

    In its judgement on ”Pulp mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina vs. Uruguay)”, the International Court of Justice, (UN principal judicial organ) declared that Uruguay has not breached its substantive obligations for the protection of the environment provided by the Statute of the River Uruguay by authorizing the construction and commissioning of the Orion (Botnia) pulp mill.

  • Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 21:00 UTC

    Uruguay’s and Argentina celebrate Court’s ruling on pulp mill dispute

    Magistrates make public the Court’s Judgement

    Much as was anticipated, Uruguay and Argentina celebrated as favourable the ruling of the International court of Justice regarding a long standing pulp mills dispute, while environmentalists were totally disappointed and promised to continue and intensify their protests and pickets.

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