Paraguay

• Sunday, August 27th 2023 - 14:36 UTC

  Argentina to keep collecting Paraná Waterway toll, FM says

  

  Argentina will continue to collect tolls from barges sailing through the Paraná-Paraguay River Waterway “because it is something that was contemplated,” Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero said this weekend after his Paraguayan colleague Rubén Ramírez's announcement last week otherwise. “A toll is not going to define the relationship between both countries,”.

• Saturday, August 26th 2023 - 23:32 UTC

  Peña and Massa hold meeting in Asunción

  

  Paraguay's President Santiago Peña and Argentina's Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa met in Asunción Thursday to discuss the Yacyretá hydroelectric dam and the Paraná River waterway, among other topics of bilateral interest.

• Thursday, August 24th 2023 - 11:00 UTC

  Paraguay reforms Finance Ministry

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Wednesday signed into law a bill suppressing the Finance Ministry and creating a Ministry of Economy and Finance instead, it was reported in Asunción. The motion had been passed by the Lower House earlier this month.

• Monday, August 21st 2023 - 09:49 UTC

  Paraguay's new FM faced with further waterway negotiations

  

  Paraguay's new Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez met last week with representatives of the Paraguay-Parana Waterway Agreement Committee (CPTCP) to discuss the next steps toward the elimination of the toll of US$ 1.47 per ton of net register to river transport circulating through the “Port of Santa Fe-Confluencia” section unilaterally imposed by Argentina.

• Friday, August 18th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

  Paraguay to shift Israel embassy to Jerusalem this year

  

  Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said Paraguay would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before the end of 2023. Cohen made those remarks after meeting with the South American country's new President Santiago Peña in Asunción.

• Thursday, August 17th 2023 - 10:43 UTC

  Minister for the Americas Rutley represented UK at the inauguration of Paraguayan president Santiago Peña

  

  UK's Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Americas and Caribbean, David Rutley returned to Paraguay on Tuesday to attend the ceremony of the presidential inauguration of President Santiago Peña – a significant milestone in the democratic history of Paraguay.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2023 - 11:50 UTC

  Peña sworn in as President of Paraguay

  

  The 44-year-old economist Santiago Peña was sworn in Tuesday as the new president of Paraguay during a ceremony at Asunción's López Palace attended by several current and former South American and world leaders.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2023 - 11:28 UTC

  Bi-oceanic project linking Brazil with the Pacific and crossing Paraguay is rapidly advancing

  

  A key project to connect the ports of the Brazilian Atlantic with those of the Chilean Pacific, crossing Paraguayan territory is rapidly advancing.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2023 - 11:22 UTC

  Sanguinetti underlines Peña's position on Mercosur

  

  Two-time former Uruguayan President Julio María Sanguinetti Tuesday praised Paraguayan President Santiago Peña's stance regarding the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), which would need a major overhaul. Paraguay, a major world food producer but landlocked, is a member of Mercosur along with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Falklands Regional Student competition 2023

  

  The Falkland Islands Government and the British Embassies in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay are inviting university students to participate in the Regional Student Competition 2023 in the Falklands.