Tag: John Kerry

• Friday, August 5th 2016 - 20:44 UTC

  Kerry supports Macri free-market policies but calls for patience: things don't change overnight

  

  United States Secretary of State John Kerry urged Argentina to be patient with the slow pace of economic progress and investments under its new government and praised president Mauricio Macri’s free-market stance.

• Friday, August 5th 2016 - 20:18 UTC

  Kerry delivers declassified documents from the Argentine 1976/83 dictatorship

  

  US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the first batch of Washington’s declassified intelligence documents dating back to the 1976-1983 Argentine dictatorship to President Mauricio Macri, following through on a commitment made by US President Barack Obama during his March visit to Argentina.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 05:59 UTC

  OAS listens to mediators' appeal for government/opposition dialogue in Venezuela

  

  Addressing the OAS Permanent Council, former Spanish president Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said that reconciliation is an indispensable and essential challenge to overcome the current confrontation situation in Venezuela, and although it will be a long, difficult process, he recommends dialogue efforts should continue.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 07:15 UTC

  Kerry announces at OAS assembly high-level talks to ease tensions with Venezuela

  

  United States Secretary of State John Kerry announced high-level talks to ease tensions with Venezuela's populist government on Tuesday, just hours after he backed calls for a referendum that could force President Nicolas Maduro from office. Kerry said the talks would start immediately in Caracas and be led by Thomas Shannon, a veteran of U.S. diplomacy in the region. Attempts last year at dialogue between the ideological foes were stalled by Venezuela's deepening crisis.

• Friday, May 13th 2016 - 08:49 UTC

  Anti corruption summit turns the spotlight on rich countries banks and real estate brokers

  

  Thursday’s world summit on fighting corruption was a time for Britain and the United States to look at their own policies and their role as shelters for billions of dollars stolen by corrupt politicians in developing countries.

• Friday, April 22nd 2016 - 15:51 UTC

  Carnival cruise to Havana triggers controversy with Cuban/Americans who allege discrimination

  

  A federal lawsuit is claiming that Carnival Corporation is discriminating against Cuban-Americans who weren’t allowed to book tickets on a cruise to the Castro brothers dominated country. CNN reports that when Carnival announced plans for a cruise ship from its Fathom line to sail from Miami to Havana in May, Francisco Marty jumped at the opportunity to surprise his children with a trip back to their native land.

• Saturday, January 23rd 2016 - 08:01 UTC

  Macri and Obama could meet at the end of March, reestablishing formal bilateral dialogue

  

  Mauricio Macri expects to meet with Barack Obama at the end of next March when the Argentine president attends in Washington the summit on Nuclear Security of which Argentina is a member. The event takes place between 31 March and first April, and if the meeting effectively takes place, it would mean the return of the formal dialogue between the two countries, rather frozen under his predecessor Cristina Fernandez.

• Saturday, January 23rd 2016 - 07:48 UTC

  Argentina wants to recover the space it deserves in the world, said Malcorra

  

  Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra was also very busy while in Davos, holding a raft of meetings including with US Secretary John Kerry, who at the end of talks twitted, “great discussion on range of topics w FM @SusanaMalcorra. #Argentina remains important friend & partner in region”.

• Tuesday, December 15th 2015 - 06:23 UTC

  Paris climate agreement triggers praise for French diplomacy and minister Fabius

  

  France seems to have achieved an unachievable triumph: uniting the world to seal a global climate pact. The Paris climate agreement, adopted on Saturday, was the culmination of more than a year of intense diplomatic efforts by France. Delegates and foreign dignitaries cheered Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, the host of the two-week talks, and gave him a standing ovation.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2015 - 10:13 UTC

  Washington promises to cooperate closely with elected president Macri

  

  United States State Secretary John Kerry congratulated on Monday newly elected president of Argentina Mauricio Macri saying Washington will cooperate “closely” with the administration that will take office on December 10.