Ambassador Marc Stanley celebrated Argentina’s active role in “standing up to bullies”
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The economy minister deemed Argentina an “economic victim” of the Ukraine-Russia war
France minister visits Brazil’s Lula amid push for better ties post-Bolsonaro
France’s foreign minister, Catherine Colonna, met with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday in a visit resetting relations following a feud between the two countries’ presidents in 2019. It was the first French ministerial visit to Brazil since 2019 when Lula’s far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, angered by President …
Argentina will reopen its embassy in Bangladesh on February 27, Foreign Minister Santiago has announced. The minister will travel to Bangladesh to inaugurate Argentina’s embassy in the capital, Dhaka, and develop a trade promotion and investment agenda in the country. Cafiero confirmed this decision to Sadia Faizunnesa, the …
Mercosur’s proposal for relaunching EU trade agreement: the sticking points
Mercosur has a concrete proposal to relaunch the trade agreement with the European Union. Qualified sources at the Foreign Ministry said Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero expressed this sentiment on Wednesday to European Union representative Josep Borrell. The points the South American bloc is proposing for review mainly relate …
Scholz urges swift EU-Mercosur free trade deal on first South America trip
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday urged a swift conclusion to talks on a free trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur South American trade bloc, on the first stop in Buenos Aires of his inaugural tour of the region. Seeking to reduce Germany’s economic reliance …
President Alberto Fernández will meet with Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholtz on Saturday, January 28, at the Foreign Ministry’s San Martín Palace in Buenos Aires, together with Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero. Scholtz’s first official visit to Argentina is part of a regional tour that will continue in Brazil and …
Argentina and the United States celebrate 200 years of diplomatic relations
Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero and United States Ambassador Marc Stanley celebrated today the 200th anniversary of bilateral relations between Argentina and the US in the Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires. As part of the celebrations, Cafiero and Stanley placed a wreath on José de San Martín’s bust …
U.S. envoy: OAS “only organization where all are committed to defending democracy”
Days after the CELAC summit in Buenos Aires, Francisco Mora, U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), has described the OAS as “the only organization where democratically elected countries have representatives and where they are all committed to defending democracy and human rights”. Mora, who was …