Tag: Argentina

• Thursday, November 24th 2016 - 15:51 UTC

  Malcorra grateful to Panama for the standing and historic support in Malvinas sovereignty dispute

  

  Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra thanked her Panama peer Isabel de Saint Malo for the standing historic support from Panama to Argentina´s sovereignty claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, (under UK control), and looked forward to strengthening the excellent bilateral relations, according to an official Wednesday release from San Martin Palace.

• Thursday, November 24th 2016 - 14:20 UTC

  No layoffs until March 2017 in Argentina

  

  The Argentine government reached an agreement Wednesday with businessmen and CGT union leaders that there will be no layoffs until March 2017, to give workers reassurances that that there is a commitment to create new jobs and to preserve the existing ones.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2016 - 16:39 UTC

  Argentina and UK to work jointly in scientific research and exchange of experts

  

  Argentina and the United Kingdom will sign this Wednesday an accord by which the two countries scientific societies will be working jointly in research projects and promoting an active exchange of scientists, as part of the recent joint statement signed last September, revealed Science and Technology minister José Lino Barañao currently in London.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2016 - 16:09 UTC

  Economic crisis hits airline industry in Brazil, Venezuela. Low-cost carrier wants start operating in Argentina

  

  Etihad join list of Asian airlines that continue to drop their routes to South America's biggest market. New low-cost service aims at passengers who do not travel by plane today in Argentina and Venezuelan companies in dire straits to stay operational.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2016 - 15:56 UTC

  Anses sells off all its Petrobras Argentina shares worth US$ 156 million

  

  As a part of the Pampa Energía takeover bid strategy, the Pensions Bureau guarantee fund had to sell its 11.85 % stake. It also holds 18% of Pampa's shares and saw no point in increasing that to 23% when prospects of a merger are on the radar. “If we didn't sell, they would have merged us with Pampa anyway,” a top Anses official said.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2016 - 09:00 UTC

  Malcorra confirms Falklands' representation in UK delegation to Red Cross discussions in Geneva

  

  Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra confirmed on Tuesday that next month there will be a meeting with representatives from the British government to advance in the agreement to start rolling the humanitarian mission headed by the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, for the identification of former Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin cemetery in Falklands and which remain as unknown soldiers. The minister also said that Falklands will be part of the UK representation.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 11:11 UTC

  Argentina and Japan, strategic partners, agree on a investment accord to prop economic ties

  

  Argentina and Japan agreed on Monday to speed up negotiations for a bilateral investment accord as part of efforts to strengthen economic ties between “strategic partners”. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Argentina President Mauricio Macri also agreed to launch talks for a tax pact for increased economic exchanges between the two countries, according to a joint statement issued after their meeting in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 10:56 UTC

  TPP without the US would be “meaningless” says Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

  

  The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would be “meaningless” without US participation, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said as United States President-elect Donald Trump announced he planned to quit the pact. PM Abe’s comment on Monday (Tuesday morning) came shortly before the Mr Trump released a short video about his plans for his administration, including an intention to have the US drop out of the TPP pact.

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:34 UTC

  Japanese PM arrives in Argentina with pledges to increase investments

  

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make an official visit to Argentina this Monday hoping to boost investment in the Latin American nation, officials said. It is the first visit to Argentina by a Japanese prime minister in 57 years—the last was by Abe’s grandfather Nobusuke Kishi in 1959.

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:22 UTC

  Nobody is going to invest in Argentina while fearing populism could be round the corner

  

  Even admitting that the Argentine economy will expand 3% next year, nobody wants to invest in the country because they are not sure that populism won't be back in a couple of years, according to economist and former central bank chair Javier Gonzalez Fraga.