Argentina

• Wednesday, March 24th 2010 - 02:54 UTC

  Peru made available “Mirage aircraft, missiles and pilots” in Falklands 82 conflict

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner thanked Peru for the military support and having made available aircraft, missiles and pilots in the conflict with Britain over the Falkland Islands back in 1982.

• Wednesday, March 24th 2010 - 02:12 UTC

  Peru, a strategic re-positioning of Argentine regional diplomacy

  

  “The visit of President Cristina Kirchner and the re-launching of ties with Peru is strategic for Argentina: Peru is a very important country in South America and a historic ally of Argentina”, said Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana following the signature of thirteen bilateral accords at Government House in Lima.

• Wednesday, March 24th 2010 - 02:09 UTC

  Argentina apologizes to Peru and anticipates closer political links

  

  Argentina and Peru put an end this week to sixteen years of “cold relations” with official apologies and a historic reparation from visiting President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who also signed with her peer Alan García a Strategic Association bilateral agreement.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 03:43 UTC

  Falklands’ oil dispute: Argentina presents its case and backgrounds to OAS

  

  Argentina presented before the Organization of American States, OAS, documents on recent British decisions and actions referred to the disputed Falkland Islands and requested they be made public to all members of the OAS General Assembly.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 03:18 UTC

  Green light for Argentina to restructure 20 billion in defaulted debt

  

  Argentina has US regulatory approval to restructure 20 billion USD in defaulted debt and expects to launch the deal within three weeks, announced the government on Monday.

• Monday, March 22nd 2010 - 23:39 UTC

  Argentine hake fishery and markets at risk because of over-fishing, says NGO

  

  Argentina could lose 40% of its fish market if hake (Merluccius hubbsi) captures do not follow new requirements imposed by the European Union (EU) to import fish and shellfish, warned the Wild Life Foundation Argentina, (FVSA).

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 06:20 UTC

  Argentina’s most serious institutional crisis since 1983, but “could be for good”

  

  Argentina is going through the most serious institutional crisis since the return of democracy in 1983, according to respected political analyst and historian Rosendo Fraga. Never “have we seen such an intense clash among the three branches of government”.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 06:08 UTC

  Buenos Aires celebrates “excellent” 2009/10 cruise season with 11% more visitors

  

  With just a few days for the official end of the 2009/2010 cruise season Buenos Aires City is celebrating an increase in the number of ship calls and visitors, according to the preliminary results of a poll contracted by the City’s Tourism Board.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 02:03 UTC

  Guessing time: Argentine economy expanded or contracted in 2009?

  

  Argentine industrial output grew by 11% in February compared to a year ago and 3.4% over January, powered by car and steel plants feeding demand from neighbouring Brazil, which is recovering faster than expected from the global crisis.

• Friday, March 19th 2010 - 03:49 UTC

  Falklands: Taiana certain UK will understand it must sit to negotiate

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana said on Thursday that there has been progress in creating the “political and diplomatic conditions” for the United Kingdom to understand the need for negotiations on the Falkland Islands sovereignty.