Argentina does not pay the Paris Club but negotiates to avoid a “default”. (Photo internet reproduction)
Argentina, which had already acknowledged in advance the impossibility to meet its debt commitments with the Paris Club and with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), decided to avail itself of the 60-day grace period provided in the 2014 agreement in case a debt is not settled on the maturity date.
After that time, if Argentina does not regularize its situation, the forum of 22 creditor countries may declare the South American nation in cessation of payments. Still, the government of Alberto Fernández hopes to avoid that extreme and to reach an agreement with the Paris Club beforehand, at least to postpone for a few more months the maturity.
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ROME, Italy, May 23, 2021 (ENS) – Leaders of the G20 have committed to a series of actions to accelerate the end of the COVID-19 crisis throughout the world and better prepare for future pandemics. Agreement was reached Friday at an online summit of health ministers co-hosted by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and G20 chair Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
The G20 Health Ministers’ Meeting 2021 is one of the ministerial meetings organized as part of the G20 Leaders Summit 2021, which will be hosted by Italy in October. At their videoconference meeting on Friday, the G20 health ministers stressed the need to ensure equitable access to vaccines and to support low and middle-income countries.
Big pharmaceutical companies and leaders of leading economies of the world faced up on Friday to the startling global imbalance in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and made big pledges to up supplies of cut-price vaccines to poorer regions.
Lavishly-funded mass inoculation campaigns are helping some wealthy nations slash infections, but few shots have reached poorer nations where the virus is still raging, sometimes uncontrollably, drawing accusations of “vaccine apartheid”.
More than 80 percent of the first billion shots went to rich countries, compared with just 0.2 percent for low-income nations, philanthropist Bill Gates told Friday’s special Group of 20 summit, which focused on the global health crisis.
Italy Signals It Will Reopen to U.S. Travelers in June AFAR 5/13/2021
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“The time has come to book your holidays in Italy,” says Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Twist our arm.Earlier this month Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi stated that Italy could be open to foreigners by mid-May, but he did not specify which foreign travelers and whether those from the United States would be included.
Now, Italy’s Foreign Affairs Minister Luigi Di Maio has shed a little more light on who is likely to be able to enter Italy and when.
“The aim is to reopen to visitors from foreign countries that have reached a high level of vaccination, loosening some measures as early as mid-May,” Di Maio said in a recent Facebook post.
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