Tag: Luis Almagro

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 - 05:46 UTC

  Mercosur expects the EU to match the latest offer for a trade agreement

  

  Mercosur Foreign Affairs ministers meeting on Monday in Argentina said they trust the European Union will match the latest offer from the South American block to make possible a trade and cooperation agreement that has remained elusive for years.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2010 - 02:09 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina agree water-monitoring negotiations are “not blocked”

  

  Discussions for the joint monitoring of the River Uruguay with Argentina are “not blocked” and “we have a very strong commitment with the on-going negotiations” said Uruguayan Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro following Monday morning’s ministerial cabinet meeting headed by President Jose Mujica.

• Thursday, July 22nd 2010 - 09:05 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina on 48 hours ‘reflection period’ before retaking negotiations

  

  Uruguay and Argentina agreed Wednesday on a 48 hours “reflection period” before retaking formal negotiations for the joint monitoring of the River Uruguay, which is at the heart of the pulp mills dispute, and alleged contamination, between the neighbouring countries.

• Tuesday, July 20th 2010 - 03:25 UTC

  Argentina/Uruguay towns celebrate first month with no pickets

  

  The Argentine city of Gualeguaychú and Fray Bentos across the shared River Uruguay celebrated Monday the first month of the end to pickets that since 2006 had impeded traffic and trade across the international bridge linking the two neighbouring locations.

• Saturday, July 17th 2010 - 06:23 UTC

  Argentina proposes gradual elimination of Mercosur double charge common tariff

  

  Argentina proposed the gradual elimination of the Mercosur Common External Tariff, AEC, double charge and hopes the initiative will receive a first approval before Buenos Aires has to turn over the rotating chair of the trade group to Brazil next August.

• Thursday, July 8th 2010 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentina analyzing Uruguayan counterproposal for joint river monitoring plan

  

  “The ball is now on the Argentine court” said Uruguayan Vice-president Danilo Astori commenting on the country’s counterproposal for the monitoring plan to be jointly applied with Argentina to pulp mills, other industries and urban locations straddling the shared River Uruguay.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2010 - 06:58 UTC

  Uruguay concerned with Argentine ‘naval harassment’ in South Atlantic international waters

  

  Uruguayan merchant and naval shipping is under continuous harassment from the Argentine Navy in South Atlantic international waters, a new chapter of the difficult relations between the neighbouring countries, reports Montevideo’s main daily El Pais, quoting undisclosed Parliament sources.

• Thursday, July 1st 2010 - 07:12 UTC

  “This is no soccer match, only both sides must benefit”, says Timerman

  

  Argentina’s Foreign Affairs minister Héctor Timerman cautioned that the dispute with Uruguay over the Botnia/UPM pulp mill and its environmental impact can’t be seen as “a football match where one side wins and the other looses”, but rather as a situation where “the peoples of both countries benefit”.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2010 - 06:24 UTC

  Uruguay to reply Argentina’s joint monitoring proposal next week

  

  Uruguay will reply next week Argentina’s proposal for the joint monitoring of the River Uruguay, said Uruguayan Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro after holding a three hours meeting with his visiting counterpart Hector Timerman.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 22:56 UTC

  Brazil willing to support Argentina and Uruguay in joint river monitoring

  

  Brazil is willing to help Argentina and Uruguay with the joint monitoring of the River Uruguay which is at the heart of a pulp mill standing dispute between both countries. Argentina and Uruguay Foreign Affairs ministers are scheduled to meet Tuesday in Montevideo to address the issue.