Tag: World Bank loans

• Monday, November 17th 2014 - 06:06 UTC

  UK will not support World Bank loans to Argentina; British public opinion against such aid

  

  The United Kingdom contributions mostly through World Bank loans and aid to Argentina have again been questioned in Britain with demands on Prime Minister David Cameron to block British taxpayers cash going to the country which has 'precarious finances' and a long standing demand over the Falkland Islands sovereignty.

• Saturday, July 13th 2013 - 13:55 UTC

  UK confirms policy of no support for World Bank and IADB loans to Argentina

  

  UK Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening has confirmed that due to recent actions by the Argentine government she is no longer confident that further investments in Argentina would be consistent with the objectives she laid out in February this year, in an answer to a House of Commons Written Parliamentary Question.

• Friday, July 6th 2012 - 15:15 UTC

  MPs call for UK to vote against World Bank loans to Argentina to counter Falklands’ aggression

  

  Twenty nine British MPs have called for Britain to vote against Argentina receiving any more money from the World Bank. The group signed an early day motion in Parliament that was put forward by Conservative MP for Romford, Andrew Rosindell, who had previously visited the Falklands.