Argentina

• Sunday, November 21st 2010 - 21:03 UTC

  Brazil recognizes Argentine sovereignty over South Georgia and South Sandwich islands

  

  Brazil has always recognized Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands but was reluctant to include South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands however that is over, according to a top official from the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 21:01 UTC

  Mujica praises Argentina/Uruguay common past; calls for an end to ‘ports’ war’

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica underlined the strong common links going back to the birth of Argentina and Uruguay and called for an end to the “ports’ war” (Montevideo vs Buenos Aires) a rivalry born when the two countries were provinces of the colonial Spanish empire.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 03:15 UTC

  Argentine economic activity expands strongly in September but at slower pace

  

  Argentina's economy activity expanded strongly in September but at a slower pace than in previous months, according to a Friday release from the country’s Statistics Office, Indec.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 02:37 UTC

  CFK ratifies economic model based on defence of Argentine production and jobs

  

  President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) ratified the current economic development model with strong government intervention and supported her position with the latest data on unemployment and growth.

• Thursday, November 18th 2010 - 20:33 UTC

  Argentina/Paris Club debt negotiations have a deadline: April 2011

  

  Finance Secretary Hernán Lorenzino said Argentina wants to successfully conclude negotiations with the Paris Club Group of creditor nations involving 6.7 to 8 billion US dollars in defaulted debt before April.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2010 - 23:37 UTC

  Argentina sends humanitarian aid to hurricane ravaged Santa Lucia Island

  

  Argentina has sent an expert in storage and humanitarian aid to the Caribbean island of Santa Lucia, recently ravaged by hurricane Tomas. The expert and 20 boxes containing sufficient pills to supply 600.000 litres of drinking water was expected to arrive in the island this week.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2010 - 16:12 UTC

  Argentina sends the Paris Club a possible road map for negotiations

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Amado Boudou confirmed that the ministry sent a letter to the Paris Club in order to initiate negotiations and establish a course of action for the cancellation of debt, although no specific dates were mentioned.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 22:29 UTC

  US cancel exchange of sensitive information with Argentina because of “leaks”

  

  The Argentine government admitted that a confidential communication channel with the US on financial operations was interrupted mid 2009 following Washington’s suspicions that data sent to Buenos Aires was used for political purposes.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 05:00 UTC

  Argentina and Club of Paris creditors agree to discussions with no IMF auditing

  

  The Paris Club of creditor nations accepted Argentina’s request to hold talks on restructuring its estimated 6.7 billion US dollar of debt without the oversight of the International Monetary Fund, announced on Monday President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 04:57 UTC

  Teheran Times says Argentina is like an occupied country (‘b-y Israel and Jews’)

  

  London-based Tehran Times newspaper published a controversial editorial on the international conflict Argentina and Iran are currently immersed into over the AMIA bombing probe. The newspaper assured “the influence of Israel and the Jews on the internal affairs of Argentina increased greatly and the South American nation now seems like an occupied country.”