01/02/2013 | Argentina

Malvinas: new round of diplomatic tension between Argentina, UK

Both Argentine and UK governments came on stage today after Foreign Minister Hector Timerman rejected to attend a meeting called by London over Malvinas, prompting another diplomatic battle between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Islands' sovereignty.

15/11/2012 | Argentina

Gov't asks 'good-spirited nations' to defend Argentina against vulture funds

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman further underlined the country’s respite against paying the vulture funds to a US hedge fund, in an article written for a US newspaper about how Latin American and Africa are affected by vulture funds.

18/12/2012 | Argentina

Timerman denies Argüello's shift caused by rift with Moreno

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman rejected claims that Jorge Argüello’s transfer from Ambassador to the US, to that of Portugal was linked with a rift with Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno.

31/01/2013 | Argentina

UK requests meeting with Timerman, Malvinas assembly members

Britain has invited Argentina to sit down for talks over the Malvinas islands next week, upon Héctor Timerman's scheduled visit to London.

25/09/2012 | Argentina

Argentina, Iran set meeting to discuss 1990's bombings

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that Argentina and Iran will meet to discuss the two bombings of Jewish targets in the 1990's, attacks in which Iran was accused by Argentine courts of playing a role.

20/10/2012 | Argentina

Gov't orders Libertad ship be evacuated

The government ordered today that the naval training frigate Libertad stranded in Africa be evacuated, following the warning made yesterday that complaints would be taken to the UN over the issue.

22/10/2012 | Argentina

UN agrees to open talks with Ghana over Libertad frigate

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman met today with top officials at the United Nations in New York to initiate talks over the illegal detention of the navy training frigate Libertad in Ghana.

30/04/2012 | Argentina

Argentine envoy urges UK to 'give peace a chance' on Malvinas

Argentina's new ambassador to London tackled Britain's Foreign Minister over the disputed Malvinas Islands by asking him at a public meeting whether he was ready to "give peace a chance" by opening talks on the islands' future.

08/06/2012 | Argentina

Malvinas: UK gov't official invited to Argentina

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman invited UK Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne, to Argentina, in order to meet with him in Buenos Aires when he makes his trip to the Malvinas islands on June 14.

15/06/2012 | Argentina

Read Malvinas islanders letter to CFK here

08/09/2011 | Argentina

'Argentina and China are building a strategic relationship,' Timerman

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman stated today Argentina and China “are building a strategic relationship,” highlighting “positive investment activity” within bilateral connections, as he was heading a dinner with powerful Chinese executives, during his first activity on his China visit.  

09/09/2011 | Argentina

China vice president highlights Argentina's 'economic and social advances'

China vice president, Xi Jinping highlighted today the “economic and social advances that Argentina has made under Cristina Fernández’s government,” during his meeting with Foreign minister Héctor Timerman.

21/09/2011 | Argentina

President meets Piñera in last day in NY

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was invited to visit Chile during a meeting she held in New York City with her Chilean counterpart Sebastián Piñera, and said she will after the October 23 elections and before the end of her administration, according to Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman.

12/02/2011 | Argentina

Redrado blasts Timerman’s outburst, compares him to Galtieri’s gov’t

Former Central Bank Governor Martín Redrado harshly criticized Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman for his uproar over the US training courses attended by officers of the Metropolitan Police force. Redrado compared him to the de facto President Galtieri and recommended him to read Charles Talleyrand.

15/02/2011 | Argentina

Justice demands detailed report of Foreign Ministry, US Embassy on the US plane incident

Judge Ezequiel Berón de Astrada requested Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman; Security Minister Nilda Garré; and the US Embassy “all the information they have" on the incident regarding the US Air Force plane seized in Ezeiza international aiport.

12/05/2011 | Argentina

China to purchase 500,000 tons of soy bean oil from Argentina

After meeting with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the Government House, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and Chinese Trade and Commerce Minister Chen Deming announced during a joint press conference that China would be purchasing 500,000 tons of soy bean oil from Argentina, seemingly putting behind a bilateral conflict that was affecting trade between both countries since 2009.

01/02/2011 | Argentina

Gov't refuses to comment on Egyptian crisis 'in order to avoid passing judgement'

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said that the government avoids taking a position in the Egyptian crisis, adding they would avoid "passing judgement on the issue."

05/02/2011 | Argentina

Timerman renews accusations to police courses given by the US

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman renewed his accusations to the police course offered by the United States at the El Salvador Institute where Buenos Aires City government sent officers of the Metropolitan Police to training and asked “what are they looking for?”

09/02/2011 | Argentina

Metropolitan Police are often 'put down and insulted', Eugenio Burzaco

In response to recent claims made by Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, Chief of Metropolitan Police Eugenio Burzaco mentioned that “occasionally people wish to insult and put down the work of the Met Police”, and said that, “the service is for Buenos Aires residents, and does not belong to Mauricio Macri”.

05/02/2013 | World

French troops to begin Mali pullout in March, Foreign Minister says

France plans to begin pulling troops out of Mali from March and will focus its operations on flushing out Islamist rebels in the north of the country, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said today.

18/09/2012 | World

Iran calls Foreign Minister for a meeting at UN

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi summoned his Argentine counterpart Héctor Timerman for a meeting to be held next week at the United Nations General Assembly, the Ministry reported.

14/12/2012 | World

Israeli foreign minister quits after indictment

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigned today after being charged with fraud and breach of trust, in a move that could have repercussions on next month's election.

02/02/2013 | World

Syrian opposition talks with Russia, seeks breakthrough

The Syrian opposition leader met Russia's foreign minister in Germany today and said he would also hold talks with the Iranian foreign minister, opening a window to a possible breakthrough in efforts to broker an end to Syria's civil war.

23/04/2012 | World

YPF: Spain urges Argentina 'to solve this in a friendly way or obey international courts'

Spain’s Foreign Ministry José Manuel García-Margallo urged Argentina to solve in “friendly manner” the plans to expropriate a controlling 51 percent stake in YPF by seizing most of Repsol's shares, or to obey what the international courts might rule on the matter.

28/07/2012 | World

Rwanda demands respect from the West after aid cuts

Rwanda's foreign minister accused Western governments today of using aid to treat African states like children, after four countries cut or delayed aid to Kigali because of its policy in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

24/08/2012 | World

OAS backs Ecuador in Assange conflict

The Organization of American States (OAS) gave its support to Ecuador over the conflict with United Kingdom over the diplomatic asylum granted by the andean country to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

08/01/2011 | World

First post-1989 Czech foreign minister dies

Jiri Dienstbier, a Czech senator and Czechoslovakia's first foreign minister after the end of communism, has died aged 73, Czech news agency CTK reported.

16/04/2012 | World

YPF: Spain says Argentina's decision is 'discriminatory, arbitrary'

The Spanish government condemned Argentina’s announcement over the expropriation of YPF, calling it a “discriminatory” and “arbitrary” decision, and stated that it will adopt any measures deemed necessary to defend the interests of Repsol and every other Spanish company.

17/04/2012 | World

'Argentina's decision endangers friendship with Spain,' Spanish Minister

Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo warned today that “Argentina has just shot itself in the foot” as the expropriation of YPF energy company might lead to “a break-up with both Spain and the international community.”

07/01/2011 | Latin America

Timerman claims Uruguay to report ‘modifications’ on pulp mill in Colonia

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro, confirmed that the construction of a pulp mill in Colonia de Sacramento, on the banks of the River Plate facing Argentina, will be based in the bilateral treaty.