Tag: Uruguay River

• Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:45 UTC

  Tourist influx to Uruguay during January soars 40%

  

  During January (summer high season) Uruguay received 413.780 tourists, 40% more than a year ago, with the Argentines leading the inflow, according to the latest figures released by Migration Office and the Ministry of Tourism.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 21:01 UTC

  Mujica praises Argentina/Uruguay common past; calls for an end to ‘ports’ war’

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica underlined the strong common links going back to the birth of Argentina and Uruguay and called for an end to the “ports’ war” (Montevideo vs Buenos Aires) a rivalry born when the two countries were provinces of the colonial Spanish empire.

• Monday, November 15th 2010 - 18:25 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina implement “scientific” accord for joint monitoring

  

  Uruguay and Argentina announced they had reached a final “scientific” agreement for the joint environmental monitoring of the UPM-Botnia pulp mill in shared waters and which delaying the implementation of a bilateral agreement.

• Tuesday, August 31st 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina implement the end of the pulp mill dispute

  

  Argentina and Uruguay signed Monday in Montevideo the agreement which puts an end to an ongoing years-long litigation over the construction of a pulp mill along a shared river.

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 06:36 UTC

  Timerman expected in Montevideo to coordinate monitoring of River Uruguay

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman will meet Monday in Montevideo with his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro, to advance with the implementation of the scientific committee that will monitor the UPM (ex Botnia) pulp mill and the River Uruguay.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 08:28 UTC

  Timerman flies to Montevideo and will announce scientists for joint-river monitoring

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman informed via Twitter that he will fly to Montevideo next Monday to meet his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro in the framework of the recent agreement regarding the dispute over the UPM/Botnia pulp-mill.

• Thursday, August 26th 2010 - 03:35 UTC

  UPM/Botnia pulp mill conflict: pickets vote to challenge agreement

  

  Argentina’s Gualeguaychú Assembly members decided to once again return to blocking the National Route 136 and this way obstruct the international road to neighbouring Uruguay; however, the measure will only take place during the Sundays of September and for a limited time, which came as a surprise.

• Friday, August 6th 2010 - 03:04 UTC

  Gualeguaychú pulp-mill activists to meet again with minister Timerman

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman said he held a “very important meeting” with Gualeguaychú Assembly members after the group of activists requested to be given an explanation of the upcoming joint monitoring of the River Uruguay recently agreed by Argentina and neighbouring Uruguay.

• Thursday, August 5th 2010 - 09:14 UTC

  Beware (River Uruguay) contaminators, warns Argentine top scientist

  

  Contaminators “beware, the time of reckoning is coming” warns Enrique Martinez Argentina’s president of the National Institute of Industrial Technology, INTI who in a brief opinion column praises the recent agreement reached between Uruguay and Argentina to monitor the River Uruguay and ensure the non contamination of the shared water course.

• Friday, July 30th 2010 - 03:21 UTC

  The “good chemistry” between Mujica and CFK crucial for the agreement

  

  The Uruguayan government and opposition expressed deep satisfaction with the agreement reached with Argentina for the monitoring of the River Uruguay which did not include ‘detrimental sovereignty issues’ and sealed the end to a long standing conflict.