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Montevideo, November 15th 2025 - 05:21 UTC

Tag: CELAC

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 10:14 UTC

    Hopefully, CELAC will “help us deepen links with China”, Argentine president

    “China in the region acts respecting our logic and our policies. They have been most respectful with the country, and I am very grateful”.

    Argentine president Alberto Fernandez is confident that “Celac can help deepen links with China”, and strongly criticized the United States for “demonizing” the Asian giant. On Monday/Tuesday Argentina and president Fernandez will be hosting the Community of Latin American and Caribbean, CELAC, seventh summit of heads of state when all the leaders of the region are expected to attend, including the 'bad boys' of the club such as Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, Cuban president Miguel Días Canel and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 08:18 UTC

    Lula lands in BA to sign bilateral deals and attend Celac Summit

    Lula was welcomed by Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva landed Sunday shortly after 9 pm Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery to hold a series of state meetings with local authorities on Monday and attend the VII summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) on Tuesday.

  • Saturday, January 7th 2023 - 11:27 UTC

    Lula to be in Montevideo the day after CELAC summit

    It is expected that both countries' stances regarding Mercosur will be discussed

    Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is to visit Montevideo on Jan. 25 after spending two days in Buenos Aires, it was announced Friday.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 10:48 UTC

    President elect Lula da Silva's foreign policy strategy

    Future minister Vieira said that besides climate change, the Lula da Silva government will strengthen relations and mechanisms with Mercosur and Brics

    Foreign policy is among the priorities of the incoming Brazilian administration of president Lula da Silva, who will be taking office next January first. Designated foreign minister, Ambassador Mauro Vieira said Brazil will have a leading role in combating climate change.

  • Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

    Argentine president turns to diplomacy

    Fernández will be a key player in Venezuelan peace talks while strengthening Celac and moving toward joining BRICS. Photo: Argentine Presidency

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández has withdrawn himself from domestic confrontations within the ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) by focusing on the international agenda that launches him onto the world's center stage in the coming days.

  • Friday, October 28th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

    FMs in Buenos Aires call for strengthening of bi-regional dialogue

    The convention, which was co-chaired by Argentina's Santiago Cafiero and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell

    The Summit pitting together foreign ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) came to an end Thursday in Buenos Aires with a declaration calling for the strengthening of bi-regional dialogue and multilateralism.

  • Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

    CELAC FMs call for joint connection with the rest of the world

    “Latin America and the Caribbean now present an asset, an opportunity for the world,” Cafiero said

    Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Buenos Aires Wednesday issued a statement calling for the consolidation of regional unity while deepening strategies for joint approaches regarding the bloc's connection with the rest of the world.

  • Wednesday, October 26th 2022 - 09:06 UTC

    EU's top diplomat holds talks with Argentine officials

    Borrell was also made an illustrious citizen of Buenos Aires

    The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell was welcomed Tuesday by Argentine President Alberto Fernández at Casa Rosada to discuss the fate of the free trade agreement with Mercosur signed in June 2019 and still pending ratification.

  • Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

    Latin American countries support Argentina's Falklands' claim at UN Fourth Committee

    Uruguay’s representative, Carlos Amorin, speaking on behalf of Mercosur, was among many delegates expressing support for Argentina in its dispute on the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas

    The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) began its general debate on decolonization and related agenda items on Monday, with speakers underscoring their nations’ commitment to eliminating colonialism in all corners of the world, with Latin American countries emphasizing in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute..

  • Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:39 UTC

    EU eyes CELAC for food; Mercosur “a more complicated issue”

    Europe looks to Latin America to mitigate the consequences of the Ukraine war, Borrell explained

    Josep Borrell, the European Union's top diplomat, has said Latin America would host a CELAC meeting sometime next year, but admitted that ratifying the 2019 trade agreement with Mercosur was “a more complicated issue.”