Politics

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:32 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez off to the UN General Assembly to claim Malvinas sovereignty

  

  President Cristina Fernandez leaves this weekend for New York to attend the UN General Assembly where two of the main issues of the Argentine agenda will be the Malvinas Islands claim and AMIA, the terrorist attack on an Argentine Jewish institution in which allegedly Iran could have been involved.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:24 UTC

  Ecuador suggests transferring Assange to its embassy in Sweden so he can be questioned

  

  Ecuador proposed on Friday transferring Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from its embassy in London where he has taken refuge to that in Sweden where he is a suspect of sex related crimes. However this depends on Britain and there has been no official reaction to the proposal.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:22 UTC

  Timerman obtains Colombian support for Malvinas claim and UK/Argentina talks

  

  Foreign minister Hector Timerman thanked the Colombian government for supporting Argentine legitimate claims over the Malvinas Islands and for calling for a resumption of negotiation with the UK to find a peaceful solution to the South Atlantic islands dispute.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:16 UTC

  Norway has contributed with over 12m dollars to demining in Peru/Ecuador border

  

  Norway presented on Friday to the Organization of American States, OAS, a contribution of 600.000 dollars to support the humanitarian demining program along the Ecuadorean/Peruvian border in the Andes in the Condor region.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:08 UTC

  Argentina/Venezuela planning a basic training aircraft for Unasur members

  

  A Venezuelan military delegation is currently visiting Buenos Aires to advance cooperation agreements with Argentina and continue to consider the project for the development of a training jet aircraft for Unasur, Union of South American Nations.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:04 UTC

  Argentine opposition describes budget bill as “inconsistent and false”

  

  The Argentine opposition strongly criticized the budget bill sent to Congress and questioned the real growth of the economy during the current year, wondering who are the real holders of sovereign bonds tied to GDP growth maturing later this year.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 04:45 UTC

  Gibraltar sends high level delegation to UK party conferences

  

  The Government of Gibraltar will have a presence at the party conferences of the three main political parties in the United Kingdom this year. The conference season opens this Sunday with the Liberal Democrat party conference which takes place in Brighton from 23rd to 26th of this month.

• Friday, September 21st 2012 - 23:53 UTC

  Falklands to introduce minimum wage; document recommends £ 5, 50 the hour

  

  Over the years there has been talk of implementing a minimum wage in the Falkland Islands, a significant amount of work has been undertaken on the issue and a minimum wage should be in place by early 2013.

• Friday, September 21st 2012 - 16:45 UTC

  Mantega says US and Japan have again ignited the “currency war” and Brazil will defend itself

  

  Brazil threatened on Friday a further clampdown on speculative foreign capital, firing a warning shot in the “currency war” Finance minister Guido Mantega blames on money-printing by Western central banks.

• Friday, September 21st 2012 - 06:48 UTC

  US calls on Brazil to reconsider proposed tariff increases in Brazil and Mercosur

  

  US Trade Representative Ron Kirk urged the Brazilian government in a letter sent on Wednesday to reconsider plans for “protectionist” tariff increases expected to hurt US exports.