Politics

• Thursday, March 26th 2009 - 05:03 UTC

  Argentina's Catholic Church warns about “altered social peace”

  

  Argentina’s influential Catholic Church warned that a year long conflict between the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and farmers over export duties has “altered social peace”.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2009 - 17:45 UTC

  HMS Northumberland helped feed 2.5 million in Somalia

  

  Devonport-based frigate HMS Northumberland docked this week in her home city for the first time in six months. The ship returned from a grueling six month deployment which saw her crew tackle pirates and deliver humanitarian aid to war-torn Somalia, in Africa.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2009 - 08:02 UTC

  Mercosur and EU preparing for a new round of negotiations

  

  Mercosur and the European Union reaffirmed their commitment to reach a wide ranging agreement, --in spite of stalled negotiations--, and to push for the conclusion of the World Trade Organization, WTO, Doha Round talks.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2009 - 05:31 UTC

  Bolivia’s President Says Quest for Coast Threatened by Peru-Chile Dispute

  

  President Evo Morales confirmed on Monday that Bolivia’s drive to regain at least a portion of the Pacific coastline it lost in a 19th-century war could be harmed by Peru’s litigation with Chile over those nations’ maritime boundary.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2009 - 13:42 UTC

  Tall ships regatta scheduled to call in Punta Arenas next summer

  

  A tall ships regatta to commemorate the 200 anniversary of Chile’s independence from colonial Spain has been organized for the summer of 2010. The idea is similar to that of the United States in 1976, when tall ships from all over the world gathered for the bicentennial.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2009 - 13:09 UTC

  Gibraltar Tripartite talks a “model” for dispute management

  The Gibraltar Tripartite Forum model, with all parties having their own voice and with an open agenda for discussion, provides a mechanism for the management (if not the resolution) of any dispute. That is one of the conclusions reached by Professor Peter Gold of the University of West England in a recent academic article on the Gibraltar ‘problem’.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2009 - 07:12 UTC

  Uruguayan president in China to promote trade and investments

  

  Visiting Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao called Monday for “firm results” from the coming G-20 summit in London next week according to reports in the official Chinese press.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2009 - 05:38 UTC

  Princess Anne begins visit to Falkland Islands and South Georgia

  

  Princess Anne and her husband Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence arrived Monday in the Falklands for a visit to the Islands and South Georgia. She is travelling to the South Atlantic at the invitation of the South Georgia Heritage Trust, SGHT.

• Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 08:31 UTC

  Cristina/PM Brown’s meeting to discuss Falklands’ impacts UK press

  

  The coming Friday meeting in Chile of Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner with Prime Minister Gordon Brown allegedly to address the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute has had headlines’ impact in Britain.

• Monday, March 23rd 2009 - 08:08 UTC

  April in Argentina: Cristina overseas and Nestor running home affairs

  

  A busy three weeks in foreign relations affairs begins next weekend for Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who will also have a chance to address the Falkland Islands sovereignty claim issue in a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.