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19 Jun 03:48 GMT

Paraguay's Foreign Minister Jose Felix Fernandez Estigarribia said he has yet to see a "clear signal" from the South American Common Market (Mercosur) for his country's reentry a year after it was suspended from the trade bloc, local …

19 Jun 02:43 GMT

Ambassador Chase Plate: Paraguay is not an easy nut to break “Paraguay should not rush in its attempts to return to Mercosur. They (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela) need Paraguay urgently since they can’t negotiate with the European Union, unless …

17 Jun 21:38 GMT

President Dilma Rousseff At the graduation ceremony of thirty new diplomats on Monday President Rousseff made a quick review of the country’s foreign policy and underlined all the initiatives in which Brazil has been active partner in recent years “to …

17 Jun 16:13 GMT

Eladio Loizaga, foreign policy advisor: the ball is in Uruguay’s field However “Cartes will be attending Mercosur future summits following his inauguration next August 15”, said advisor Eladio Loizaga who last week travelled to Montevideo where he …

16 Jun 15:52 GMT

Venezuela is not part of Mercosur; it was not ratified by Paraguayan congress” The issue was brought up following an invitation by Uruguay’s Foreign minister Luis Almagro to Lelia Rachid and Eladio Loizaga, president-elect Cartes foreign policy advisors …

14 Jun 22:17 GMT

Escrito por Indira Santana    14 de junio de 2013, 14:50Montevideo, Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) Uruguay gave Venezuela the pro tempore presidency of the Health Council of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) in a ceremony during the 34th ministerial meeting …

14 Jun 00:13 GMT

Minister Almagro made the announcement, and confirmed Mujica will attend Paraguay president elect inauguration Mercosur headquaters in Montevideo  The announcement puts an end to speculation that the summit would be postponed until the end of August so …

11 Jun 23:28 GMT

Escrito por Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez    11 de junio de 2013, 15:35Montevideo, June 11 (Prensa Latina) The human rights must be the backbone of any public policy, said here today Javier Miranda, Human Rights Chief of the Ministry of Education and …

11 Jun 07:15 GMT

Even as Chinese President Xi Jinpeng was making his way around the region to promote more trade and cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean, visiting Trinidad and Tobago (where he also held bilateral talks with those Caricom …

10 Jun 18:21 GMT

Escrito por Ivan Noel Orta Martín    10 de junio de 2013, 13:15Caracas, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela will lead its efforts toward protection of the heritage of the member countries of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) during its term as secretary …

10 Jun 13:47 GMT

10 de junio de 2013, 00:14United Nations, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) The membership of UN decolonization begins today two weeks of work to discuss the cases of the Falkland Islands, Puerto Rico and Western Sahara, among others. The meeting will consider the …

7 Jun 13:58 GMT

BRASILIA, June 7 (BERNAMA-NNN-MERCOPRESS) -- The powerful Brazilian National Confederation of Industry, CNI said that the country and its Common Market of the South (Mercosur) partners will end 'isolated' if they don't actively look for …

6 Jun 23:26 GMT

CNI says Brazil is rapidly losing export space “Brazil runs the risk of losing more space in its export markets if it doesn’t fully address the global challenge of looking for new partnerships in world trade”, reads an official document from the CNI. The …

5 Jun 18:15 GMT

Mercosur inactivity is virtually total said acting president Danilo Astori “At the moment we have observer state status but we pretend to become as soon as possible candidate for full membership of the Pacific Alliance, and hopefully this can be achieved …

4 Jun 08:19 GMT

“We share everything with Spain, but our main trade partner is China”, said the Uruguayan president “It’s over ten years we have been discussing an agreement of Mercosur with the EU”, said Mujica who then called on Spain “to make Europe remember that the …

1 Jun 19:17 GMT

President Mujica from Uruguay that currently holds the Mercosur chair made the announcement from Madrid Foreign minister Fernandez Estigarribia reacted favourably and said Paraguay will look into the facts “We will analyze the information and situation …

29 May 14:36 GMT

29 de mayo de 2013, 09:57Montevideo, May 29 (Prensa Latina) The Payada, which originated in the improvised songs sung by the gauchos of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, will be studied here by cultural experts from the Southern Common Market ( …

28 May 17:17 GMT

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos may not have been hallucinating when he said last week that the Pacific Alliance - the bloc made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile - "is the new economic and development engine of Latin America and the …

28 May 01:47 GMT

Foreign minister Fernandez Estigarribia: no letter in the mail box “We want to return to Mercosur according to law, as it must be done. So far I have received no indication to attend that meeting” said the Paraguayan minister. Nevertheless he admitted …

27 May 03:06 GMT

Ambassador Ivan Ramalho: ‘we must remain united’ “Only the block as a whole can make a deal as it is set out in the Mercosur rules, because we are a customs’ union. We must negotiate as a block, I personally think this is the case and that we must remain …

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