Uruguay

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Uruguay's strategy against Omicron is to just be alert, President says

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday said his Government had no specific strategy against the Omicron strain of the coronavirus, other than “being alert.”

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Graf Spee's anchor ferried to future Battle of River Plate memorial site

  

  The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate against British Commonwealth forces at the beginning of World War II, has been ferried by lorry to Punta del Este to be a part of the Memorial site to be opened before the end of the year.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Canadian rating agency praises Uruguay's fiscal consolidation and raises BBB- trend from stable to positive

  

  Canadian credit rating agency, DBRS Morningstar confirmed Uruguay's Long-Term Foreign and Local-Currency – Issuer Ratings at BBB-, and at the same time, elevated its prospect from stable to positive.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 23:37 UTC

  Lacalle ratifies Uruguay's stance regarding Mercosur opening up to the world

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou has insisted Mercosur needed modernizing and it is along those lines that his country was seeking one-on-one free-trade deals with the United States and China

• Saturday, November 13th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  Mercosur agrees on a negotiating group to deal with climate change

  

  Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay Friday have announced in Glasgow that they had agreed on the need to create a negotiating group to tackle climate change.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  UK/Uruguay agree to establish a Trade Dialogue to develop economic relations

  

  During a three-day official visit to Uruguay UK's Minister for International Trade, Ranil Jayawardena, M.P., met with Uruguay’s Foreign Minister, Ambassador Francisco Bustillo, and confirmed both countries’ desire to continue strengthening their bilateral trading relationship.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Royal Navy's Type 83 destroyer project will enter concept phase early next year

  

  The Royal Navy's Type 83 destroyer project, the replacement for the Type 45, will enter the concept phase early next year, it was announced in Parliament. Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin was responding to being asked when the concept and assessment phase for the Type 83 destroyer would formally begin.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

  Uruguay calls Nicaraguan elections “illegitimate” – Argentina does not want to interfere

  

  Uruguay's Foreign Ministry Monday said the electoral process in Nicaragua which led to a new five-year term for the incumbent President Daniel Ortega and his Vice President wife Rosario Murillo lacked “legitimacy.”

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  US Deputy Secretary of State visits Uruguay meets with ministers

  

  United States Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman who arrived in Uruguay on Sunday and leaves met on Monday with Foreign and Economy ministers, in Montevideo, as part of a South American visit that also includes Peru.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 19:28 UTC

  Brazil donates two Bell helicopters to Paraguay

  

  After securing new units as replacements, Brazil's Federal Police last week announced the donation of two Bell 412EP helicopters to Paraguay. The two units were built in 1995 and delivered straight to Brazil.