Tag: Ukraine conflict

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 10:41 UTC

  Ukraine asks Paraguay for Mercosur's help

  

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski Wednesday asked his Paraguayan colleague Mario Abdo Benítez to bring the other Mercosur leaders to support his war-torn country through its plight following Russia's invasion.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Foreign Secretary Truss says “women are also capable of terrible and appalling acts”

  

  According to British media reporting, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss had some discordant comments on Boris Johnson's claim that Russian President Putin's invasion of Ukraine was the “perfect example of toxic masculinity” and it wouldn't have been carried out by a female leader.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Brazil, a net wheat importer, has broken export records in 2021/22

  

  Brazil, among the largest wheat importers in the world, --mainly from Mercosur associates--, is breaking consecutive export records in 2022. In less than six months, until June 20, Brazil exported more than twice as much wheat as in 2021, that is 2.5 million tons vis-a-vis 1.12 million tons in the whole year.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentine President tells G7 dialogue was needed to solve Ukraine crisis

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday told attendees at the G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, that tax havens “generate social hells,” and called for a new international financial architecture that would be inclusive of “the peripheries of the world.”

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  Mercosur again divided on Ukraine conflict, Argentina and Brazil not in a WTO list condemning “aggression”

  

  Over 50 WTO members agreed a statement at the WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), in full support of Ukraine, and condemning “aggression”. However, Mercosur was divided on the issue, while Uruguay and Paraguay figured among the over fifty, Argentina and Brazil were absent.

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 21:28 UTC

  Nicaragua opens the door for Russian troops to land in Central America

  

  Nicaragua's regime has reportedly greenlighted the entry of Russian forces into the Central American country, according to a Russian state TV broadcast. “It is time for Russia to deploy something powerful closer to US cities,” host Olga Skabeeva was quoted as saying.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  War in Ukraine to increase LatAm poverty, ECLAC foresees

  

  Poverty in Latin America will grow to 33.7% and extreme poverty to 14.9% this year as a direct consequence of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has warned.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  French newsman killed in Russia-Ukraine conflict

  

  Newsman Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff has been killed Monday by a Russian grenade thrown against a humanitarian convoy in Donbass, French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Ukraine has 22 million tons of grains blocked because of Russian invasion, claims Zelensky

  

  While Ukraine claims to have some 22 million tons of grains and seed in stock, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is in “intense contact” with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States, and the European Union to restore Ukrainian grain exports and prevent the current global food crisis from getting worse.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 08:55 UTC

  Ukraine war: Poland wants Norway to share windfall gains from oil and gas sales

  

  Norway which is western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, and also has one of the largest sovereign funds in the world, should share the huge profits it has made from oil and gas exports since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said over the weekend, according to Tsvetana Parakova from Oilprice.