Tag: Cecilia Nahón

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Kirchnerite old hands back in the foreign ministry; Argüello ambassador in US and Bielsa in Chile

  

  Kirchnerite old hands are back at the Argentine ministry of foreign affairs and worship. The most outstanding is Jorge Argüello who was appointed ambassador in Washington but at the same time coordinator of other appointments in the different multilateral and regional organizations in the US capital, such as IMF, World Bank, Inter American Development Bank and the OAS.

• Monday, December 7th 2015 - 08:44 UTC

  Argentina talks to US Treasury Secretary; lifting dollar clamp depends on level of reserves

  

  Argentina's incoming Finance minister Alfonso Prat-Gay spoke with the United States Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to discuss economic plans to achieve sustained economic growth. The minister also announced in a long interview with Buenos Aires main dailies that lifting the dollar 'clamp' as promised by president-elect Mauricio Macri, will much depend on the level of international reserves Argentina can count with.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2015 - 06:54 UTC

  Argentina furious with Washington over top-spy 'hiding' in the US

  

  Argentina and the US are on collision course following president Cristina Fernandez complaint of lack of cooperation from Washington, in helping locate a former Argentine spy, head of special operations, who apparently is hiding 'or being protected' in the US, and has been summoned by prosecutors in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2015 - 06:31 UTC

  Don't Be Fooled by Dialogue -- Argentina Only Wants One Answer to 'the Falklands Question'

  

  By Jan Cheek (*) (*) - On Friday 4th, Ms Cecilia Nahón, Argentina Ambassador to the United States, wrote an article for the Huffington Post, titled 'Malvinas: All Argentina Is Saying Is Give Dialogue A Chance.'

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 09:12 UTC

  Malvinas: All Argentina Is Saying Is Give Dialogue a Chance

  

  By Cecilia Nahón (*) (**) - Over the last few months the United States has reached two historic agreements that have dominated media headlines and the local political debate: the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba after more than 50 years and, more recently, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed by the US, China, Russia, France, United Kingdom and Germany, along with the European Union, with the Islamic Republic of Iran about the latter's nuclear program

• Thursday, February 12th 2015 - 06:38 UTC

  Argentine administration counterattacks US media on Nisman's case

  

  Argentina's Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said that the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman is being “used to attack the government” in an interview with the Washington Post. Meanwhile Argentina's Ambassador to the US Cecilia Nahon wrote a letter to the Post’s editor stating that “Argentina seeks only justice in 1994 bombing case.”

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentina warns the US not to interfere with the investigation of Nisman's death

  

  Argentina will not tolerate any United States intervention in the investigation of prosecutor Alberto Nisman's death, and will consider any attempt as an interference in the country's domestic affairs and a violation of Argentine sovereignty.

• Friday, December 12th 2014 - 05:50 UTC

  New US ambassador in Argentina sworn in at White House ceremony

  

  Noah Mamet has sworn as new United States ambassador to Argentina during a ceremony held in the White House, together with US vice president Joseph Biden and Argentine ambassador to the US Cecilia Nahon.

• Wednesday, October 1st 2014 - 08:09 UTC

  US calls on Argentina “to normalize relations with all bondholders”

  

  While the US State Department again called Tuesday on Argentina 'to normalize relations with all its bondholders’, the government of President Cristina Fernandez deposited a 161 million dollars bond interest payment with a newly appointed local trustee on Tuesday, defying a U.S. judge who held Argentina in contempt of court on Monday for taking illegal steps to meet its debt obligations.

• Monday, February 10th 2014 - 03:42 UTC

  “Argentina's economy on the right course” K ambassador tells the Washington Post

  

  Argentina's reactions to the country's image in the US and particularly that of President Cristina Fernandez administration economic policies have not ceased. This time it was ambassador before the US government, Cecilia Nahón who strongly replied the terms of an editorial from The Washington Post anticipating “Argentina's coming collapse”.