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Share this News Pope Francis speaks with President Alberto Fernández during a private audience at the Vatican on January 31, 2020. | REMO CASILLI / POOL / AFP President Alberto Fernández will head to Europe and meet Pope Francis in the Vatican as the country looks to secure a repayment deal with the International Monetary Fund. Argentina is due to start repaying the US$44 billion loan this year but in March Fernandez said the debt in its current form was "unpayable." In recession since 2018, Argentina must also repay a US$2.8-billion loan with the Paris Club of creditor countries that prov...

Mercosur: What next? | Art by Joaquín Temes The Mercosur bloc could be on the verge of historic changes, after member nations agreed this week to debate a potential liberalisation of its trade rules at a key meeting next month Talks over a reduction in the common external tariff could also be on the table. The news was announced by the Foreign Ministries of Argentina and Uruguay jointly last Monday following a virtual extraordinary meeting to broach these two issues presented by the government in Montevideo. "The Uruguayan proposal will be studied by the Common Market Group co-ordinators wit...

Argentine Foreign Minister Felipe Solá Wednesday discussed with Cuba's Ambassador to Buenos Aires the possibility of developing locally a Cuban-created vaccine against covid-19, it was announced.

Argentina interested in collaborating with Cuban vaccine production Argentina interested in collaborating with Cuban vaccine production Buenos Aires, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) Argentine Foreign Minister Felipe Solá on Wednesday announced his country´s possibility of collaborating with a proposal to finance a quick process for Cuban vaccine production. Mr. Solá received Cuban ambassador Pedro Pablo Prada with whom he spoke about Argentina´s collaboration and also about the crisis and challenges imposed by the pandemic and the need for projects to give access to vaccines. According to Argent...

Argentina advocated for a reduction in tariffs, “but using a segmentation methodology,” said Solá The Government of Argentina Monday submitted a proposal for the average reduction of the Common External Tariffs during a virtual meeting of Southern Common Market (Mercosur)'s Foreign Ministers, it was announced. Argentine FM Felipe Solá advocated for a reduction in tariffs, but using a segmentation methodology in agro-industrial, industrial, capital goods, information technology and telecommunications. Meanwhile, Uruguay formally insisted on making Mercosur “more flexi...