Uruguay

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 23:03 UTC

  Uruguay hopeful it can reach a tax-data exchange agreement with Argentina

  

  “Negotiations are on the right track” and should be concluded in coming months, said Uruguayan sources adding that one of the current difficulties is what will happen with the Argentine negotiating team, following December 10 when re-elected President Cristina Fernandez takes office for her second consecutive four year mandate.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 22:13 UTC

  Astori forecasts record tourist season in Uruguay but cautions about the US dollar

  

  Uruguay’s Vice president Danilo Astori downplayed the effects of Argentina’s restrictive measures for the purchase of dollars and forecasted an excellent summer season with hundreds of thousands of Argentines tourists visiting Uruguay.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 22:07 UTC

  Uruguay’s central bank confident about commodities’ price prospects

  

  Uruguay’s Central bank sees “few probabilities” of a strong deceleration in emerging economies or a ‘significant’ fall in commodities prices even when lately there has been a drop in the value of grains although still above their historic average.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 22:00 UTC

  Brazil makes official support for Uruguay in ‘fiscal haven’ controversy with G20

  

  Brazil’s Foreign Affairs minister Antonio Patriota said Brasilia supports Uruguay in its controversy with France following President Nicholas Sarkozy claim, at the recent G20 summit, that Uruguay was a ‘fiscal haven’.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 16:03 UTC

  Air traffic in Argentina and Uruguay delayed because of volcanic ash

  

  Commercial flights in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay were cancelled or reprogrammed Tuesday morning because of disruptions caused by the hovering volcanic ash being blown from the Chilean Puyehue which erupted five months ago.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 01:46 UTC

  World Bank loan to help Uruguayan farmers address climate change consequences

  

  The World Bank approved last week a loan for 49 million dollars to support Uruguayan farmers in adopting environmentally sustainable practices to improve the resilience of their production systems in response to the effects of climate variability.

• Monday, November 21st 2011 - 23:55 UTC

  UK praises Overseas Territories for sponsoring measures to protect seabirds

  

  Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham has welcomed the UK Overseas Territories important role in agreeing new measures to protect seabirds.

• Monday, November 21st 2011 - 07:47 UTC

  Mujica says Brazil supports Uruguay in the fiscal haven controversy with G20

  

  President Jose Mujica said on Sunday that his peer from Brazil Dilma Rousseff will make a strong declaration in support of Uruguay when the next G20 summit to counter French President Nicholas Sarkozy recent statements in Cannes describing one of Mercosur junior members as a “fiscal haven”

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 18:54 UTC

  Uruguay is Mexico’s strategic partner in Mercosur says President Calderon

  

  The Mexican president underlined the strategic importance of Uruguay since it is the only Mercosur member that has a free trade agreement with Mexico, thus making it the ‘strategic partner’ of Mexico in Mercosur.

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 17:41 UTC

  G20 president says Uruguay is no ‘fiscal haven’ and praises transparency commitment

  

  Uruguay received a huge political boost from Mexico (the same it was denied from its Mercosur partners under influence from Argentina) in its dispute with the recent G20 summit which through spokesperson French president Nicholas Sarkozy described Uruguay as a ‘fiscal haven’.