Stories for June 2012

Friday, June 8th 2012 - 02:08 UTC
Alliance of the Pacific emerges as a potent challenge for Mercosur and Brazil

The leading countries of Latin America’s Pacific Rim with the exception of Ecuador and a few Central American countries, agreed to conform the Alliance of the Pacific an ambitious integration project which has good relations with Washington and is targeted to accompany the growing influence of the Asia-Pacific basin.
Friday, June 8th 2012 - 01:35 UTC
China interested in a trade agreement with Mercosur reveals Uruguay

China has offered Mercosur to consider the possibility of negotiating a free trade agreement revealed Uruguay, when the South American block is going through one of its worst moments ever so distant from the integration process pledges of 1991.
Friday, June 8th 2012 - 01:19 UTC
Uruguay hopes China will build and finance a deep-sea port on the Atlantic

Uruguay’s long standing dream of building a deep-water port in the east of the country could become a reality in coming days when China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visits the country, according to the government financed newspaper La Republica.
Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 22:27 UTC
Fiji anticipates support for the C24 resolution on Falklands/Malvinas

Fiji will continue to be part of the consensus in support of the UN Decolonization Committee resolution regarding the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, anticipated the Pacific islands Foreign Affairs minister following a meeting with the non-resident Argentine Ambassador to Fiji, H.E. Pedro Villagra Delgado.
Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 22:21 UTC
New Zealanders “misinformed” about Malvinas war says Argentine ambassador

New Zealanders have been misinformed about the battle for the Falkland Islands between Great Britain and Argentina in 1982, the South American country's ambassador to New Zealand has told an audience in Palmerston North.
Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 21:26 UTC
Duke of Cambridge Falklands’ experience earns him his SAR captain wings

After sharpening his flying skills in the disputed Falkland Islands, the Duke of Cambridge has qualified as a helicopter search and rescue captain.
Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 21:20 UTC
UK blasts Argentina’s “domineering position” and attempt to impose a blockade on the Falklands

Argentina is trying to impose an “economic blockade” on the Falkland Islands, said Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne who made plain clear that the people of the Falklands are free to determine their own political arrangements and were not to be part of ”some sort of trade-off” over their heads.
Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 20:25 UTC
“Too much financial, too little social” attention says ILO chief of the current crisis

It is possible to turn the inefficient growth patterns of today’s world economy around but this requires a redefinition of priorities and the political conviction to overcome the dogmas of the past, said ILO chief Juan Somavia, in his addess to the plenary session of the International Labour Conference.
Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 20:19 UTC
Transparency warns about close links between business and governments leading to corruption in Europe

Anti-corruption group Transparency International warned in a new report released Thursday that the close relationship between business and government has enabled corruption and undermined economic stability in Europe.
Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 06:29 UTC
Argentine president attendance at C24 to discuss Falklands’ case, “misfortunate” and “most unusual”

The UK regretted as ‘misfortunate” and “strange” the announced attendance of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez next week to the UN Decolonisation Committee to claim sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.