Argentina

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:57 UTC

  Falklands fishing boat and Argentine Navy “unsettling’ encounter

  

  An encounter between an Argentine Naval vessel and trawler fishing in Falklands waters was described as ‘unsettling’ today by Director of the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department John Barton.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:55 UTC

  The Kirchner couple government “is corroded by corruption”

  

  Peruvian Nobel Literature Prize 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa claims Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner leads a “government corroded by corruption” and said that Argentina is disappearing as a political reference in Latinamerica.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 00:21 UTC

  Argentina claims IMF wants rich world’s “stagnation” exported to developing countries

  

  “The IMF wants to make us believe that the policies which caused the crisis are now going to be part of the solution”, said Argentina’s Central bank president Mercedes Marcó del Pont following the opening of the IMF/World Bank annual assembly.

• Friday, October 8th 2010 - 19:03 UTC

  Private sector calls on governments for the EU/Mercosur trade agreement

  

  Chambers of Commerce from Europe, Brazil and Uruguay called on their governments to give a new thrust to negotiations for an ambitious cooperation and trade EU/Mercosur agreement.

• Friday, October 8th 2010 - 00:15 UTC

  Argentina calls IMF a “non prestigious, absolutely inefficient institution”

  

  While the International Monetary Fund said it hopes Argentina will normalize relations with the multilateral institution, the Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman described the IMF as “non prestigious organization”.

• Friday, October 8th 2010 - 00:10 UTC

  Repsol-YPF optimistic about finding oil in Islas Malvinas waters

  

  Spanish oil and gas company Repsol-YPF praised its Argentine YPF associates and said he was hopeful that “soon” the company “would discover hydrocarbons in the Islas Malvinas waters”, as has happened in Brazil.

• Friday, October 8th 2010 - 00:06 UTC

  Argentina investigates Dutch company that surveyed in Falklands’ waters

  

  Fugro NV the world’s largest surveyor of sea-beds and deepwater for the mining and oil industries, said it doesn’t believe it broke the law when it carried out work near the Falkland Islands that has become the subject of an Argentine investigation.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 18:06 UTC

  Chile tries to cool escalating conflict with Argentina

  

  Chilean Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno said Wednesday he would not make any further comments involving the serious controversy which erupted following Argentina’s decision to deny extradition of a Chilean guerrilla fighter charged with the killing of a Senator and kidnapping the son of a media owner in 1991 when democracy had been restored to Chile.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 17:39 UTC

  IMF and Kirchner administration agree: economy to expand strongly 2010/11

  

  The International Monetary Fund warned of considerably high price index inflation and seemed sceptic of official GDP growth reports in Argentina as it presented its World Economic Outlook report, although it forecast a 7.5 percent growth, with a strong expansion partly due to the favourable global scenery and a strong trade with Brazil.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 17:34 UTC

  “Argentina seeks to service all its debts” promises Mrs Kirchner in Germany

  

  “Argentina seeks to service all its debts” said President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner following a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin. Mrs. Kirchner is on a three day high profile visit to Germany where she also met with President Christian Wulff in Berlin’s Bellevue Palace.