Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• 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.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2013 - 22:03 UTC

  Falklands: “there are three parties to the debate” UK tells Cristina Fernandez

  

  The United Kingdom reiterated on Tuesday that there can be no Falkland Islands sovereignty discussions with Argentina unless and until the Islanders so wish, because there are three parties to the debate: UK, Argentina and the Falkland Islands people.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2013 - 03:24 UTC

  Tight race for President Cristina Fernandez candidate in Buenos Aires province

  

  Next Sunday the Argentine electorate will be participating in the different parties’ primaries ahead of the mid term October ballot, which could signal the beginning of the end of the Kirchner decade. The event is identified as PASO, open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries.

• Monday, August 5th 2013 - 23:18 UTC

  Falklands, global espionage and multilateral organizations in CFK dialogue with Ban Ki-moon

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez visited on Monday afternoon United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and called for a restructuring of multilateral organisations in order to improve performance, using as an example regional body Unasur (Union of South American Nations).

• Monday, August 5th 2013 - 19:51 UTC

  Brazilian farmers blast Mercosur for its ‘bad leadership and worse presidents’

  

  Mercosur has become characterized for “bad leadership and worse presidents” of the countries that make up the block, since there is no incentive for the regional organization and it has become “an ideological battle political field”, said Cesario Ramalho da Silva, president of the Brazilian Rural Society.

• Monday, August 5th 2013 - 02:11 UTC

  Argentine economy conditioned by energy imports and subsidized fuels and power

  

  If the Argentine government does not manage to stabilize its energy balance, which is one of the main drains of US dollars, the ban on hard currency purchases, the barriers to imports and the growing obstacles to spend money overseas for Argentine travellers will continue and could worsen, according to Buenos Aires analysts.

• 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.

• Friday, August 2nd 2013 - 03:01 UTC

  Argentina’s energy challenges according to The Economist: Flogging a dead cow

  

  The Economist in its latest printed edition addresses Argentina’s challenges in the energy field including the seizure of a majority stake in YPF from Spain’s Repsol and the latest agreement with US oil company Chevron to exploit shale oil and gas.

• Thursday, August 1st 2013 - 04:04 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez says unemployment is down to 7.2% but calls for more job creation

  

  Argentina's unemployment rate fell to 7.2% in the second quarter of 2013 compared with 7.9% in the first quarter of the year, President Cristina Fernandez announced during a speech praising her government’s industrialization and added-value policies.

• Monday, July 29th 2013 - 05:29 UTC

  Francis congratulates Cristina Fernandez on her first grandson with a pair of shoes and socks

  

  Pope Francis met with President Cristina Fernandez and other South American leaders following the closing ceremony of the XXVIII World Youth Day in Rio do Janeiro and presented the Argentine head of state with a gift of socks and shoes for her recently born first grandson Nestor Ivan Kirchner.