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Montevideo, May 4th 2024 - 19:27 UTC

Uruguay

  • Wednesday, June 10th 2015 - 06:53 UTC

    Uruguay says Brazil and Paraguay are ready to sign trade accord with Europe

    “Uruguay's position is well known regarding a free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union”, underlined Tabare Vazquez

    Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said that Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay are ready to sign the long delayed trade and cooperation agreement between Mercosur and the European Union. Such an agreement has become one of the cornerstones of Vazquez presidency faced with falling exports and limited markets.

  • Monday, June 8th 2015 - 09:11 UTC

    Uruguay's vice-president travels to Brussels to advance Mercosur/EU trade talks

    “The Uruguayan government has great interest in advancing in accords between Latin America and the Caribbean with the EU” said Sendic.

    Uruguay's vice-president Raúl Sendic and Foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa will be attending this week's summit of EU and Celac leaders scheduled in Brussels, which will also address in the sidelines, current EU/Mercosur negotiations for a wide ranging trade agreement.

  • Saturday, June 6th 2015 - 08:31 UTC

    Ramsar convention in Punta del Este calls for healthy wetlands

    Happy World Environment Day, from Dr Christopher Briggs, Secretary General Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

    We join the rest of the world to celebrate World Environment Day from glorious Punta del Este, Uruguay, where we are currently meeting at the 12th Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. The Contracting Parties have gathered and are very hard at work, to define a new Strategic Plan that will guide our commitment to conserve and wisely use the world’s wetlands, over the next six years from 2016 to 2021.

  • Friday, June 5th 2015 - 21:47 UTC

    Uruguay sacks ambassador over disagreements on Mercosur/EU trade policy

    Cancela said that the Mercosur/EU trade negotiations are on a block-to-block basis, and not with the different governments from Mercosur

    Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez removed the country's ambassador before the European Union following comments on Mercosur/EU trade and cooperation negotiations which contradicted recent statements by foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa regarding trade strategy and policy.

  • Tuesday, May 26th 2015 - 06:44 UTC

    Argentina invokes unity and rejects proposal for a more 'flexible' Mercosur

    'What is best for Mercosur is unity, keeping united and deciding together, each of us deciding on their own is disunity, disunity will never benefit Mercosur'

    Brazil and Uruguay's plan for a more 'flexible' Mercosur to speed negotiations for an encompassing long delayed trade agreement with the European Union have stumbled with the first official reaction from Argentina, which does not agree with the tariffs' proposals policy or individual trade initiatives from member countries.

  • Monday, May 25th 2015 - 08:00 UTC

    Brazil/Uruguay expect Paraguay to join in speeding Mercosur/EU negotiations

    “In June we will be receiving Paraguay's president Cartes, and most certainly we will be addressing issues related to Mercosur”, said Tabare Vazquez

    Uruguay will be hosting Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes in early June when he is expected to confirm' his country's support to Uruguay and Brazil in their renewed approach to accelerate negotiations for the signing of a full cooperation and free trade agreement with the European Union, which were started fifteen years ago.

  • Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 08:39 UTC

    “Obama would relish the opportunity to visit Cuba and Havana in particular”

    The reporter who asked about the presidential visit to Cuba was Cristina Escobar from Cuba's national television

    President Obama is looking to travel to Cuba’s capitol city of Havana before his tenure ends, White Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Thursday, the same day a Florida bank announced that the State Department has given them permission to make diplomatic transactions between the two nations.

  • Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 05:49 UTC

    Brazil and Uruguay on an “urgent and necessary” redesign of Mercosur

    Vazquez said it was necessary to grant member countries “certain degree of flexibility, so that those who wish can advance with other trade partners”

    Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said it was “urgent and necessary” to redesign Mercosur so as to give its members greater 'trade flexibility'. Vazquez made the statements following Thursday meeting with his peer Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia and underlined “it would be naive to admit that Mercosur as it stands currently, is satisfactory”.

  • Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 07:27 UTC

    Uruguay and Brazil summit to consider a more flexible Mercosur

    “The presidents will discuss advances in the main bilateral integration projects and regional and multilateral issues, with emphasis on Mercosur”, said Brazil

    Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez will be meeting his peer, Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia this Thursday to address a dense bilateral agenda, and more specifically the workings and future of Mercosur, in search for a more flexible group, open to agreements with third parties.

  • Friday, May 15th 2015 - 07:53 UTC

    Uruguay convinced Mercosur will be more flexible regarding trade accords with third parties

    Uruguay believes there is a basic consensus to be more flexible in allowing Mercosur members to reach agreements with third parties, said Nin Novoa

    Mercosur countries have reached a basic consensus to look for mechanisms that will allow individual members to negotiate trade agreements outside the block, announced Uruguay's foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa, who has been leading a strong campaign (with Brazilian support) on the issue.