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Montevideo, November 24th 2025 - 17:56 UTC

Argentina

  • Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 07:27 UTC

    Fallon's Falklands visit caused 'concern' and displeasure

    Buenos Aires media reports indicate that the Foreign ministry made a formal presentation on Fallon's visit to the British embassy in Buenos Aires

    The Argentine government expressed its 'concern' to the UK over Defense minister Michael Fallon's visit to the Falkland Islands where he spent time with the military at MPA and met with Falklands elected government authorities and members of the community, according to media reports in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 07:01 UTC

    'A change in policy towards Malvinas', according to La Nacion

    “Despite a deep difference, all issues of common interest, must be included in the bilateral agenda, so that there is nothing that can block the capacity of holding that dialogue”

    Buenos Aires daily La Nacion dedicated its main Friday editorial to the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, (A change in the policy towards Malvinas), underlining the new Argentine government's position promoting bilateral relations on all issues with the UK, but never forgetting the 'deep difference' over the Islands.

  • Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 06:41 UTC

    Griesa prepared to drop injunction if Argentine congress repeals 'lock law'

    Judge Griesa said he would drop the injunctions after Argentina repeals domestic laws ('lock laws') that prevent the country from making payments to holdouts

    The judge presiding over a long-running battle between Argentina and a group of New York hedge funds said on Friday that he would lift an injunction that had locked Argentina out of international markets, if certain conditions are met.

  • Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 06:03 UTC

    Argentina and Uruguay agree that integration and Mercosur are the priorities

    “We covered all the issues we have in common in our bilateral and regional agendas and approved a work method that included meetings twice a year”, said Malcorra

    Argentina and Uruguay foreign ministers agreed to hold twice a year meetings to address all issues in the bilateral agenda but with emphasis on integration and Mercosur which are 'our main concerns'. Susana Malcorra met with her peer Rodolfo Nin Novoa in Montevideo on Friday and after a several hours meeting made brief statements with no questions taken from journalists.

  • Friday, February 19th 2016 - 08:04 UTC

    Falklands' sovereignty issue “was settled more than thirty years ago”, says Fallon

    Sovereignty of the Falklands is not up for discussion with Argentina: “the sovereignty issue was settled more than 30 years ago.”

    The Falkland Islands is one of Britain’s biggest military bases and as part of the UK was, “entitled to its cut of the defense budget,” Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon MP said on Tuesday as he visited the Falklands for the first time.

  • Friday, February 19th 2016 - 04:35 UTC

    Macri and Renzi vow to promote bilateral trade and Italian investments in Argentina

    “We are focused in trade and getting new investments, in renewable energy, in railways. We want Italian companies to invest in Argentina,” said Macri

    President Mauricio Macri and visiting Italian premier Matteo Renzi vowed to “re-launch bilateral relations”, and emphasized the Italian interest in participating in energy, transport, gas and technology projects in the country which has become home to one of the largest Italian migrations.

  • Friday, February 19th 2016 - 03:52 UTC

    Obama's visit is evidence Argentina is reinserting in the world, underlines Malcorra

    The fact Obama has decided to come in the first quarter of Macri's administration “is a clear signal of the interest and priority the United States assigns to Argentina”

    “The coming visit of President Barack Obama is irrefutable proof of what we have said all along: Argentina is reinserting itself in the world, maintaining but also opening links with all our other partners and potential associates”, Foreign minister Susana Malcorra underlined following the White House statement that the US president will be visiting Argentina next 23/24 of March.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 01:03 UTC

    Malvinas, a dream that can be rescued

    Dante Caputo was foreign minister between 1983 and 1989 under ex president Raúl Alfonsín

    Under this heading Dante Caputo, a former Argentine foreign minister (1983/89) with an impeccable domestic and international academic background addresses the 'Malvinas question' and proposes Argentina sets a 2033 target for a new attempt on the Islands, this time trying to convince the Falkland Islanders, and that in seventeen years time, the country is reliable and sovereignty discussions should then take place.

  • Wednesday, February 17th 2016 - 11:11 UTC

    Pollack announces a new settlement with Argentine bondholders

    “I am very pleased to report that Argentina has reached an Agreement in Principle to settle the Brecher Class Action” said Special Master Daniel Pollack

    The court-appointed mediator in the bonds dispute says Argentina has reached a settlement with bondholders seeking about 1% of the US$10 billion being pursued by investors. Mediator Daniel Pollack announced on Tuesday in New York the deal in the class action case. The deal came nearly two weeks after he announced two of six leading bondholders settled claims for more than US$1 billion.

  • Tuesday, February 16th 2016 - 15:16 UTC

    Argentina rejoins the real world

    Regarding the Falkland/Malvinas Malcorra presented a cautiously optimistic view

    UN John J. Metzler(*) Reversing the trend of economic mismanagement, ending a fifteen year debt impasse with foreign lenders, calming a percolating political crisis over the disputed Falkland/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic, and overcoming the image of unpredictability, Argentina’s new conservative government faces serious obstacles in reintroducing Argentina to an often skeptical world.