MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 10th 2016
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Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 23:11 UTC
Montevideo-Stanley, an integrating and necessary air link
By Jaime Trobo (*) - For some time now we have been arguing that Uruguay must strengthen its bonds and contacts with a neighboring territory, in the southern cone, part of our American continent, where families who arrived in our region during the first half of the XIX century live, and with whom those contacts, once very intense, have waned, particularly in the last decades.
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Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:24 UTC
Argentina still has uphill battle with holdouts: a stay of pari-passu is next round
While investors cheered progress on last week's arduous negotiations in New York between Argentine government officials and litigant investors, the administration of president Mauricio Macri still faces an uphill battle as it works to bring other holdouts on board.
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Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:16 UTC
US Treasury's strong support message for Argentina's litigation with holdout funds
The United States gave another sign of support for Argentina’s economic policies as US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew spoke on the phone with Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay, striking an optimistic tone regarding the settlement offer made to the holdout funds in New York.
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Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:10 UTC
Three letters from Macri to Ban Ki-moon; possible summit with Obama in New York
Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra met on Tuesday in New York with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and delivered three letters from president Mauricio Macri.
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Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:08 UTC
London's position on Falklands 'unchanged', says UK ambassador in Spain
The United Kingdom will not change current policy on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, according to the UK Ambassador to Spain Simon J. Manley, confirming London's stance on the Islands sovereignty.
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Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 05:26 UTC
Meteorologists rebuke Royal Caribbean's “Anthem of the Seas” on weather report
“Royal Caribbean should have known better”. That's the word Tuesday from weather experts who closely monitored the development of the storm that rocked the line's Anthem of the Seas, on Sunday and Monday.
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Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 02:33 UTC
Falklands: Back to the future, why the 'new approach' from Argentina is completely missing the point
By the Honourable Mike Summers, OBE (*) - Over the weekend of the 6th and 7th February, the press in Argentina reported that the Government of Argentina (GoA) was going to change its approach to its treatment of the Falkland Islands, its relationship with the United Kingdom and how it intends to “resolve the Falklands question”
