Uruguay

• Tuesday, December 15th 2009 - 10:56 UTC

  Japan extends grant to Uruguay for solar power development

  

  Japan is extending Uruguay a grant of 8.5 million US dollars to finance a solar power project, according to official Japanese sources. Japan’s Foreign Affairs minister Katsuya Okada and his Uruguayan counterpart Pedro Vaz signed the document Monday.

• Saturday, December 12th 2009 - 15:32 UTC

  Uruguay tells Stora Enso: no new pulp mills next to Botnia

  

  Uruguayan president elect Jose Mujica said Friday that Finland’s Stora Enso will not be constructing a pulp mill along the border with Argentina close to where another mill, Botnia is already functioning and has led to an ongoing conflict with the neighbouring country.

• Saturday, December 12th 2009 - 14:57 UTC

  Four Korean fishing vessels burnt and lost in Montevideo in two months

  

  Between forty and fifty Asian crewmembers from two Korean flagged fishing vessels that caught fire Thursday night while docked in Montevideo, are being questioned by Uruguayan judicial authorities.

• Thursday, December 10th 2009 - 11:40 UTC

  Early next year Petrobras begins oil seismic surveying offshore Uruguay

  

  Petrobras begins seismic surveying offshore Uruguay in early 2010 and will keep its level of investments in Argentina as part of the Latinamerica expansion policy of the Brazilian government managed oil and gas corporation.

• Thursday, December 10th 2009 - 11:36 UTC

  Construction of Stora Enso pulp mill in Uruguay is further delayed

  

  Finaland’s Stora Enso, Europe’s largest paper and forest products’ company said Wednesday that the decision whether to construct a pulp mill in Uruguay could take “well over a year”.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2009 - 08:42 UTC

  Cruise visitors in Uruguay this season close to 400.000

  

  Uruguay’s Ministry of Tourism forecasts some 400.000 tourists and crew members will be visiting the country during this summer cruise season, which represents a slight increase over the previous year.

• Saturday, December 5th 2009 - 09:05 UTC

  President-elect Mujica calls on Uruguayans “to talk less and work more”

  

  President elect Jose Pepe Mujica said that Uruguay has a strategic position in the region with a great future and he conceives the country not as a “wedge” but as a “bridge”.

• Saturday, December 5th 2009 - 03:37 UTC

  November inflation in Uruguay remains unchanged: annual target 5.9%

  

  Uruguayan consumer prices in November remained virtually unchanged with a 0.06% increase over October, having accumulated in the last twelve months 6.39% and 5.41% in the eleven months of 2009, according to the latest data released by the Statistics Office.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2009 - 13:32 UTC

  Mujica to meet with Lula da Silva next week in Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan president-elect Jose Mujica is scheduled to meet next Tuesday with Brazilian president Lula da Silva on the sidelines of the Mercosur summit to be held in Montevideo, according to diplomatic sources.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2009 - 10:28 UTC

  Mujica wants “the best possible relations” with Argentina

  

  Uruguayan President-elect José Mujica vowed to have “the best possible relations” with Argentina and “isolate” the conflict over the Botnia pulp mill, which has generated frictions in the bilateral relation.