Tag: CELAC summit - Cuba

• Tuesday, January 28th 2014 - 04:36 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez has lunch with Fidel Castro and blasts banks' “speculative practices”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández used her personal Twitter account to blast figures in the banking and financial industries, which according to the head of state used speculative practices to send Argentina into default in 2001.

• Monday, January 27th 2014 - 16:48 UTC

  Falklands Islands, CELAC and the right to self-determination

  

  By Tim Cole - This week the CELAC Summit will be held in Havana and the Cuban government will be in charge of finalizing the language in the Summit declarations. Inevitably there will be one on the Falkland Islands and I suspect it will ignore the referendum held on the Islands last year when 99.8% voted in favor of the Islands remaining an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2014 - 11:19 UTC

  Malvinas: Timerman happy because region summit will state that the Islands are Argentine

  

  Argentina is looking forward to the coming Celac summit because there will be an overwhelming acknowledgement that the Malvinas Islands are Argentine and the need for bilateral negotiations, as well as a unanimous rejection of the US blockade on Cuba, said Foreign minister Hector Timerman.

• Monday, January 20th 2014 - 22:07 UTC

  Cuba proposes declaring Latam and the Caribbean a Zone of Peace

  

  Cuba that is hosting a major regional summit at the end of the month will propose that Latin America and the Caribbean be declared a Zone of Peace, according to reports from the Cuban Foreign ministry.