In a national address and sitting next to representatives from the Catholic Church and United Nations Development Agency, Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde made a dramatic appeal to all political and social sectors for a minimum consensus to overcome the current unprecedented and extreme crisis.
Argentina's Mercosur partners and associate members gave their support to the institutional solution to the Argentine crisis, and expressed their confidence that both Argentine authorities and the people will achieve the recovery of economic growth and social development.
After another night of street demonstrations against the government and its financial restrictions, Argentine banks re-opened on Friday and immediately attracted long queues.