Tag: CELAC

• Tuesday, June 24th 2014 - 23:52 UTC

  Unasur sides with Argentina and warns about “global financial stability”

  

  The Union of Southern Nations (UNASUR) expressed its solidarity with Argentina after US Supreme Court decision to dismiss the country’s appeal in its legal dispute with holdout hedge funds, rejecting “the behavior of speculative agents that endanger the agreements reached between debtors and creditors”.

• Monday, June 23rd 2014 - 04:39 UTC

  Mercosur and Celac stand by Argentina in the hedge funds litigation

  

  Mercosur and Celac country-members expressed support for Argentina and its ongoing litigation with the holdout hedge funds, particularly last week's decision from the US Supreme Court, (which refused to consider the case), and the financial consequences emerging from such a position.

• Monday, April 28th 2014 - 08:48 UTC

  Chinese minister underlines the 'strategic' significance of Brazil for Beijing

  

  The relationship between China and Brazil has “extensive significance” due to their position as two primary emerging market countries and economies, visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here in Brasilia.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  Paraguay will chair Mercosur in the next six months, says Dilma Rousseff

  

  Paraguay will hold the following rotating chair of Mercosur, (if the group's summit to be hosted by Venezuela and which has been delayed on several occasions really takes place). The announcement was made by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff during her visit on Monday to Brussels for the Brazil/EU summit, who underlined that Brazil supports dialogue as the way out to the current situation in Venezuela.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2014 - 21:12 UTC

  Cuba opens Celac summit and warns against 'foreign interference'

  

  The President of Cuba Raúl Castro warned against the “foreign interference” suffered by Latin America and the Caribbean region at the Tuesday opening of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Havana, which brought together representatives from the 33-nation group.

• Friday, January 17th 2014 - 06:22 UTC

  Mercosur summit suspended for the third time: mid February could be next date

  

  Mercosur president’s summit was suspended on Thursday for the third time, due to agenda incompatibilities, Paraguay’s Foreign Minister Eladio Loizaga confirmed in Asunción. Earlier in the day, Loizaga met with Brazilian Foreign minister Luiz Alberto Figuereido. The meeting was going to take place in Caracas, on January 31.

• Monday, December 2nd 2013 - 12:13 UTC

  Argentina's Malvinas claim reaffirmed by Mercosur associate member, Guyana

  

  Argentina thanked Commonwealth member Guyana for its strong support in the Malvinas Islands question and underlined the excellent bilateral relations in all fields, during the official visit of Foreign minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett to Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, August 7th 2013 - 14:17 UTC

  Mujica says Mercosur members must have more negotiating space with third parties

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said that Mercosur should give its members more space to negotiate with third parties and supported linking to the Alliance of the Pacific, which nevertheless he argued is “part of a geopolitical involving China” and not accepted by Brazil.

• Wednesday, August 7th 2013 - 03:16 UTC

  CFK lectures Security Council: end of veto power and UK must abide Falklands’ resolution

  

  President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, used the opportunity of Argentina at the rotating chair of the United Nations Security Council to demand an end to the veto power of its five permanent members (United States, Russia, China, Britain and France), and criticize the UK refusal to engage in Falkland Islands sovereignty discussions.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2013 - 02:49 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez will chair Security Council debate on UN relations with regional organizations

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will be chairing next Tuesday a meeting of the United Nations Security Council that will be addressing the relations of Latam and Caribbean regional and subregional organizations with UN in helping prevent conflicts and restore peace, was announced by the Argentine ambassador Maria Cristina Perceval.