Tag: Argentina

• Saturday, March 23rd 2013 - 10:22 UTC

  Argentina supports UN investigation on human rights violations in Iran

  

  Amid tensions surrounding the Argentina/Iran Memorandum of Understanding over the AMIA case, Argentina has voted against the Tehran regime at the United Nations Human Rights Council that will keep investigating reports of human rights violations in the Islamic Republic. Venezuela on the other hand supported the Iran position.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 21:23 UTC

  Uruguay’s economic-trade relations with Argentina at ‘their worst moment in a long time’

  

  The economic-trade relations with Argentina are going through ‘their worst moment in a long time’, and the latest measures announced by the government of President Cristina Fernandez have a ‘very harmful effect’ on Uruguay, said Vice-president Danilo Astori on Friday.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 14:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands Referendum, White Puffs of Smoke?

  

  By Professor Klaus Dodds & Dr Alasdair Pinkerton - The celebrations on Arch Green, outside the Falkland Islands’ Stanley Cathedral, on Monday 11 March, revealed the strength of emotion and passion that has circulated around this referendum process, ever since it was announced in June 2012.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 07:19 UTC

  Argentina threatens with ‘flexible imports’ to ensure supply of consumer goods

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez announced the government is prepared to make imports more flexible in those areas where a few companies have a quasi-monopoly control, but also warned about windfall profiteering.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:59 UTC

  Falklands’ invasion: documents show Conservatives were divided on how to react

  

  Senior Tories were initially sceptical about going to war over the Falkland Islands, newly released papers from Margaret Thatcher's personal archive show. A note from the whips' office following Argentina's 1982 invasion reported solid support for military action from some Conservative MPs, but others were privately hostile.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:21 UTC

  Seven countries, including Argentina and UK calls for a universal Arms Trade Treaty

  

  The UK and Argentina joined Foreign Ministers from six other countries to call for a universal Arms Trade Treaty. Countries of the world gathered at the UN in July 2012 to negotiate an Arms Trade Treaty but the conference could not reach an agreement.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 00:42 UTC

  Timerman thanks Interpol for describing Iran/Argentina accord as ‘positive’

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman showed his “gratitude” to Interpol legal counsellor Ronald Noble for the letter he sent to Buenos Aires considering the recently approved Memorandum of Understanding signed with Iran “positive.”

• Thursday, March 21st 2013 - 06:21 UTC

  Argentina ratifies trade policy before WTO, which questioned inflation stats

  

  Argentina ratified its controversial trade policy during the periodic country review at the World Trade Organization, WTO, arguing Argentina has grown sustainedly since 2003, as have social indexes supported by the strong and successful re-industrialization program.

• Thursday, March 21st 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  Urgent meeting of Argentine economic team as US dollar jumps 10% to 8.75 Pesos

  

  President Cristina Fernandez called an urgent meeting on Wednesday evening of her economic team following a day of hectic trading in the currency exchange market which had the US dollar climb to 8.75 Pesos in the parallel market, expanding the gap with the official rate to almost 70%.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 23:40 UTC

  Argentines expect inflation to reach 33.5% in the next twelve months

  

  Argentines expect inflation to reach 33.5% in the next twelve months, according to the latest report from the Finance Research Centre, CIF, which belongs to the Torcuato Di Tella University. This is half a percentage point higher than the previous release.