Tag: Argentina

• Thursday, February 25th 2016 - 06:27 UTC

  Hollande extends full support for Macri: “France is ready to back you”

  

  Argentina's President Mauricio Macri received fresh endorsement of his economic measures on Wednesday when French President Francois Hollande flew in to Buenos Aires with 30 business leaders looking for investment opportunities. The visit reflected a turnaround in Argentina's global profile since Macri took power two months ago and immediately set about mending diplomatic ties and his country's tattered credit ratings.

• Thursday, February 25th 2016 - 06:16 UTC

  Argentina in pre-accord with toughest hedge funds; Special Master Pollack furious

  

  Argentina and a group of hedge funds are nearing a deal that would pay investors about 70% of what they say they are owed, as the government moves closer to re-entering the global bond markets following its 2001 default.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 07:43 UTC

  Argentina's YPF submits copy of contract with Chevron but warns about 'confidential information'

  

  Argentina's oil and gas company YPF submitted a copy of the contract signed with Chevron back in 2013 for joint works at the Loma Campana field in the province of Neuquén. Still, Argentina’s state-run energy giant demanded “confidential information” not to be revealed.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 07:32 UTC

  Falkland’s Demining Project fourth phase draws to a close

  

  The current phase of demining in the Falkland Islands, which began in January 2015, is nearing completion and MercoPress recently caught up with the Head of the Falkland Islands Demining Programme Office (FIDPO), Guy Marot, to discuss the ongoing progress of demining in the Falklands.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:54 UTC

  Despite Malvinas, “we want to accord and collaborate with the UK” to the benefit of both countries

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri said he wants to reach an agreement with the UK that will enable collaboration in areas of mutual interest, despite the dispute over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, although 'we will never drop Argentina's historic claim on the issue'.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

  Project to identify Argentina soldiers' remains in Falklands, advancing says Clarin

  

  Argentina and Great Britain are close to reaching an agreement on procedures for the identification of the Argentine combatants buried at the memorial in the Falkland Islands, reports Clarin, Apparently discussions are quite advanced and an Argentine proposal was replied by a Foreign Office counter proposal.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:33 UTC

  Chileans that damaged a Malvinas monument in Rosario were finally set free

  

  The two young Chileans that remained in custody following the graffiti and damages to the Monument to the Malvinas fallen in the National Flag park of the city of Rosario, Argentina were finally set free by Federal Judge Carlos Vera Barros who decided a “lack of merit” in the charges.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2016 - 07:52 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas, an advance to celebrate

  

  By Andrés Cisneros (*) - With the reinstatement of the 'impasse' on the issue of the Malvinas Islands, the Argentine government has made a wise decision. Not only because it puts in course again something proven useful in the past, but also because, looking into the future, there is no better path to the solution of the problem. It's not the mere restoration of a policy (good or bad) which already happened.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2016 - 06:56 UTC

  Argentina to issue 15bn in bonds to end litigation with holdouts and return to global money markets

  

  Argentina is planning to issue an estimated 15bn dollars in bonds, with which to pay the bondholders involved in years of litigation, and thus abandon its default situation which impedes it from having access to global money markets. The news was released by the Argentine Ministry of Finance.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2016 - 06:43 UTC

  Argentina celebrates 112th anniversary of flag flying and presence in Antarctica

  

  Argentina Antarctica Day was celebrated on Monday 22 February, recalling the 112th anniversary of the first time the country's flag was flown at the Meteorological and Magnetic Observatory in the Laure Island, South Orkneys in 1904.