Argentina

• Monday, June 21st 2010 - 04:10 UTC

  Falklands’ and decolonization debate, Timerman’s international debut

  

  Argentina’s newly designated Minister of Foreign Affairs Hector Timerman will be making his international debut with the Falkland Islands debate, next Thursday/Friday at the United Nations Decolonization Committee, C24.

• Saturday, June 19th 2010 - 00:24 UTC

  Taiana resigns after “strong exchange” with Mrs. Kirchner; Timmerman replaces him

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana and a close ally of the ruling Kirchner couple since 2003, unexpectedly resigned Friday allegedly because of “lack of support and differences” in the implementation of the country foreign policy.

• Friday, June 18th 2010 - 20:39 UTC

  Argentina does not rule out Brazil in the River Uruguay joint monitoring

  

  Argentina’s Deputy Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti did not rule out the possibility of Brazil integrating the joint environmental monitoring of the River Uruguay currently being arranged by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her Uruguayan counterpart José Mujica.

• Friday, June 18th 2010 - 00:13 UTC

  Veteran politician replaces Chilean outspoken ambassador in Argentina

  

  Adolfo Zaldívar, the president of Chile’s Independent Regional Party (PRI), is now Chile’s new ambassador to Argentina.

• Friday, June 18th 2010 - 00:02 UTC

  Record crop of corn in Argentina: 22.5 million tons; yield 8.5 tons per hectare

  

  Argentina’s 2009/2010 crop of corn is estimated to reach 22.5 million tons of corn, based on better than expected yields, according to Buenos Aires Grains Chamber.

• Thursday, June 17th 2010 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentine activists suspend blockade; 60 days to reach agreement

  

  Argentine activists voted Wednesday night to temporarily lift the roadblock on a bridge leading to Uruguay which has been at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between the two countries regarding the construction of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan side which allegedly contaminates.

• Thursday, June 17th 2010 - 06:06 UTC

  Taiana and Tierra del Fuego governor heads of delegation to C 24 in New York

  

  A new chapter of the Argentine escalation of the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute is scheduled for next week at the United Nations Decolonization Committee or C24.

• Thursday, June 17th 2010 - 03:19 UTC

  Mercosur and EU clash over mining environmental regulations

  

  Mercosur and associate members Chile and Ecuador rejected environmental regulations for the mining sector, under consideration by the European parliament and which could become a barrier for minerals’ exports to the EU.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2010 - 05:31 UTC

  Argentine pickets insist with pollution controls inside Uruguayan pulp mill

  

  Argentine pickets who have been blocking since 2006 a bridge leading to neighbouring Uruguay to protest the construction of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan side said they are open to negotiations.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2010 - 04:52 UTC

  Brazil denies, and will not accept, contacts with Falklands’ oil industry

  

  The Brazilian government denied that the Falkland Islands “have been looking for business options in Brazil” specifically linked to hydrocarbons exploration, according to the head of the South American Desk at the Brazilian Foreign Affairs ministry.