Argentina

• Thursday, October 14th 2010 - 06:21 UTC

  UN G24 president on official visit to Buenos Aires and Tierra del Fuego

  

  Donathus Keith Saint Aimee, president of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation or G24 is expected in Argentina Thursday and is scheduled to visit the extreme south province of Tierra del Fuego that according to Argentine law has jurisdiction over the disputed Falklands/Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands.

• Thursday, October 14th 2010 - 05:32 UTC

  Argentine farmers warn on deteriorating conditions for agriculture and livestock

  

  The combination of policies from the Argentine presidential Kirchner couple and scarce rainfall have had devastating consequences for agriculture and livestock breeding, claimed Hugo Luis Biolcati president of the Argentine Rural Society, SRA, the country’s strongest farmers’ lobby.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 06:59 UTC

  China resumes purchases of Argentine soy beans banned since April

  

  China’s two largest state-owned grains and oilseeds trading companies to import soybean oil from Argentina, easing restrictions imposed in April. Beijing-based Cofco Ltd., China’s biggest grain trader, and China Grain Reserves Corp. have been cleared by the commerce ministry to import soybean oil from Argentina.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 01:02 UTC

  Falklands’ military tests: CFK complains to UN; UK says it’s 28 year routine

  

  Argentine Ambassador to the United Nations Jorge Argüello confirmed Monday that a copy of the formal verbal complaint to London was channelled to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as a way of deepening the protest over the military exercises being deployed by British forces in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• 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.