MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 18th 2012
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Saturday, August 18th 2012 - 02:37 UTC
In nine years of “Kirchner era” Argentina honoured 32 billion dollars in debts
Argentina’s Central bank confirmed that during the “Kirchner era” the country paid 32 billion dollars in pending debts, “the centre piece of the policy to recover sovereignty by cutting indebtedness” and praised the decision to appeal to the bank’s international reserves to support such a policy.
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Saturday, August 18th 2012 - 02:02 UTC
OAS decides to hold ministerial meeting on Ecuador-UK conflict next week
The Organization of American States (OAS) has scheduled an emergency meeting of its foreign ministers next week to discuss the differences between Ecuador and Britain over the asylum that Quito granted to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
