Argentina

• Thursday, December 3rd 2009 - 13:35 UTC

  Toys’ game: Brazil warns Argentina that trade restrictions will be reciprocated

  

  Brazil has threatened with trade reprisals if Argentina does not lift new restrictions to imports of Brazilian manufactured toys. Trade tensions between the two Mercosur partners and largest economies of South America have soured lately because of what Brazil considers “protectionist” measures and attitudes from Argentina.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2009 - 10:28 UTC

  Mujica wants “the best possible relations” with Argentina

  

  Uruguayan President-elect José Mujica vowed to have “the best possible relations” with Argentina and “isolate” the conflict over the Botnia pulp mill, which has generated frictions in the bilateral relation.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2009 - 09:16 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner promises next Ibero-American summit will address Malvinas issue

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said that the sovereignty claim over Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich islands and surrounding maritime spaces, illegitimately held by Britain, will be paramount in next year’s Ibero-American summit declaration.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2009 - 08:29 UTC

  All ready for the Argentina-Chile bicentennial (Dakar) rally

  

  Dakar rally director Etienne Lavigne celebrated Wednesday in Buenos Aires that the coming 2010 edition of the world event will coincide with Argentina and Chile commemoration of their second bicentennial as nations.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2009 - 05:38 UTC

  Repsol-YPF makes major oil discovery in Neuquen basin

  

  Spain’s Repsol YPF confirmed in Buenos Aires local media reports that it has hit oil in Argentina's Neuquen province, but the potential from the well has still not been technically certified, a company spokesman said.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2009 - 12:59 UTC

  Argentina protests Lisbon Treaty which has Falklands as associate territory

  

  With the coming into effect December first of the European Union Lisbon Treaty, Argentina has instructed its embassies to protest EU pretensions that Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and surrounding maritime spaces, and the Argentine Antarctic sector are EU associate territories.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2009 - 10:35 UTC

  Mujica and Mrs. Kirchner to meet next week in Montevideo

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be meeting next week with Uruguay’s president-elect Jose Mujica, announced Argentine ambassador in Montevideo, Hernán Patiño Mayer.

• Saturday, November 28th 2009 - 21:48 UTC

  Pope says treaty between Argentina and Chile was ‘an example of peace before barbaric violence'

  

  Pope Benedict XVI hailed a 1984 Vatican-mediated friendship agreement between Argentina and Chile as a “luminous example” of peace winning out over war during an audience Saturday with the presidents of both countries.

• Friday, November 27th 2009 - 05:12 UTC

  South America backs Argentina/Uruguay bid to host 2030 World Cup

  

  South American football's governing body CSF has backed a bid by Argentina and Uruguay to jointly stage the 2030 World Cup finals to commemorate the centenary of the first tournament that was also held in Uruguay.

• Thursday, November 26th 2009 - 13:43 UTC

  Chile and Argentina celebrate 25 years of peace treaty with Benedict XVI

  

  Pope Benedict XVI will receive Saturday in the Vatican the presidents from Argentina and Chile to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the peace treaty which avoided a full fledged war between the neighbouring countries over the Beagle channel and three mostly uninhabited islands in the extreme south of Tierra del Fuego.