27/01/2013 | Argentina

CFK meets with Piñera, closes Chilean tour

On the last day of his stay in Chile, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner held a series of private meetings with leaders in the final day of the European Union (EU) and Latin American and Caribbean States Community (CELAC) summit held in Santiago de Chile.

08/11/2012 | Argentina

President suspends official trip to Spain after medical recommendation

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will fail to assist the Ibero-American Summit to be held in Cádiz city, after her personal doctors recommended her to "avoid additional efforts" in her agenda.

06/12/2012 | Argentina

CFK flies to Brasilia for Mercosur Summit

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner left for Brasilia today, where she will participate on the Mercosur summit on Friday.

26/01/2013 | Argentina

CFK calls for new Mercosur proposal, meets with Rousseff

The Argentine Head of State met with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in Chile today, stating afterward that a new foundation must be built “between the Mercosur partners."

19/06/2012 | Argentina

Gov't announces joint work between YPF, Gazprom after CFK-Putin meeting

The technical teams of hydrocarbon companies YPF (Argentina) and Gazprom (Russia) will begin to do joint work in the area, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman announced after a meeting between President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Mexico.

12/07/2012 | Argentina

Workers 'will have to rethink their votes in 2013,' Moyano says

CGT Central Labour Confederation leader Hugo Moyano, who was reelected today during CGT Congress at Club Ferro Carril Oeste, assured that “we will have to rethink our vote in 2013 if the Government does not give an answer to our claims.”

29/07/2012 | Argentina

CFK to attend Mercosur Summit in Brasilia

President Cristina Fernández will travel tomorrow to Brasilia to attend the Mercosur Summit in which Venezuela's entry to the regional economic bloc will be formalized.

15/04/2012 | Argentina

Summit balance 'very positive,' Minister Timerman assures

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman indicated that Argentina’s participation in the 6th Summit of the Americas “left a very positive balance,” and stressed on the importance of the bilateral meeting between President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and US president Barack Obama.

01/05/2012 | Argentina

Argentina elected to represent Latin America at UN Security Summit

Argentina received support across Latin America and the Caribbean today to become the non-permanent representative for the region at the UN Security Summit for the 2013-2014 period, the Foreign Ministry informed today.

19/06/2012 | Argentina

G20 Summit: CFK calls for 'policies aimed towards consistent growth'

Speaking last night at day one of the G20 Summit, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called on the international community to “sustain active policies aimed towards a consistent economic growth” as she stressed the “necessity of re-accessing the debt some countries bear with several different international institutions.”

18/12/2011 | Argentina

CFK to travel Uruguay to participate in Mercosur Summit

In her first official trip abroad following her reinstatement, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will travel to Montevideo to participate this Tuesday in the Summit for heads of State, in which Argentina will assume a temporary role leading the bloc.

20/12/2011 | Argentina

CFK takes over Mercosur chairmanship

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner took office as the temporary head of the Mercosur bloc and highlighted that “we must have a vision beyond the commercial one, we have to rely on the region to know that we have to protect each other.”

12/04/2012 | Argentina

CFK to meet with Obama on Saturday in Colombia

While attending the 6th Summit of the Americas in Colombia this Saturday, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is scheduled to meet privately with US president Barack Obama.

03/11/2011 | Argentina

G20: CFK says 'financial capitalism anarchy' should end

During the G20 meeting in Cannes, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called today for world leaders to put a stop to the current “anarchistic economic capitalism” and regulate the markets, not the countries, to go back to what she referred to as “real capitalism” after three years of world economic crisis.

02/12/2011 | Argentina

'Argentina, Brazil have a shared vision of what's happening in the world'

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured that Argentina and Brazil have a “shared vision of what’s happening in the world” and of the “actions” that both countries must apply so that “the social inclusion process doesn’t become dull” in the region.

03/12/2011 | Argentina

CFK back in Buenos Aires after CELAC summit

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner arrived back to Buenos Aires early this morning, after her participation the first Community for Latin American and Caribbean States CELAC summit in Venezuela, where she held meetings with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and her Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff.

29/06/2012 | World

Draghi says EU crisis summit delivered 'tangible' results

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said he was pleased with steps taken at a summit of EU leaders, including a decision to allow direct recapitalisation of banks, but added that future aid must be tied to strict conditions.

17/10/2012 | World

Rome brushes off IMF aid call for Italy

The International Monetary Fund called on the eve of a European Union summit for both Spain and Italy to seek euro zone assistance to draw a line under the bloc's debt crisis, but Rome has rebuffed the idea and Madrid seems likely to apply alone.

24/06/2012 | World

Pre-summit document presses EU banking union

European leaders will discuss specific steps towards a cross-border banking union, closer fiscal integration and the possibility of a debt redemption fund at a summit on June 28-29, according to a document prepared for the meeting.

27/06/2012 | World

Merkel says no easy answers to end euro crisis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today, one day before a crunch European Union summit, that there were no quick or easy solutions to end the euro zone's debt crisis and leaders should avoid making rash promises they could not keep.

28/06/2012 | World

EU summit works on short-term support for Spain, Italy

European finance officials were working on urgent measures to ease financial market pressure on Spain and Italy, which are too big to bail out, as EU leaders began a summit on Thursday deeply divided over how to resolve the euro zone's debt crisis.

23/05/2012 | World

Powers, Iran discuss detail of possible nuclear deal

World powers and Iran held unusually detailed talks today about how it could show its nuclear work is not a disguised quest for atom bombs, in a Baghdad meeting aimed at halting a slide toward a new Middle East war.

05/06/2012 | World

Japan Finance Minister: G7 to work together on Spain, Greece

The Group of Seven finance chiefs agreed in a teleconference call to work together to deal with the problems hitting Spain and Greece, Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said today.

19/06/2012 | World

G20 backs Europe's overhaul to fight crisis

Europe won support from world leaders for an ambitious but slow-moving overhaul of the euro zone, even as pressure built in financial markets for quicker solutions to its debt crisis that threatens the world economy.

19/05/2012 | World

World leaders vow to combat financial turmoil, back Greece

World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing their economies, which are increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis.

20/05/2012 | World

Police, protesters clash in Chicago as NATO summit opens

Baton-swinging police officers clashed with anti-war protesters at the start of the NATO summit, beating some and dragging others away.

21/05/2012 | World

Three climbers die as Everest season winds down

Three climbers died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest, officials said today.

14/04/2012 | World

'For the Americas, this is a moment of great promise,' Obama

US President Barack Obama stressed today the "great promise" for business growth in the Americas, while attending a meeting for corporate chief executives in Cartagena, Colombia where he is attending the 33-nation Summit of the Americas.

14/04/2012 | World

US makes plea to overcome 'Cold War diplomacy'

US President Barack Obama called for the possibility of overcoming “the diplomacy of the Cold War,” today in reference to the dispute with Cuba, whilst participating in the CEO summit given prior to the inauguration of the VI Summit of the Americas taking place in Cartagena, Colombia.

18/05/2012 | World

Thousands protest in Chicago ahead of NATO summit

An estimated 2,500 people, including hundreds of nurses, protested peacefully in a downtown Chicago plaza under the watchful eye of police, chanting mostly about economic issues that have little to do with the summit of the NATO military alliance starting this weekend.

08/12/2011 | World

EU agrees tougher budget, debt rules

European Union leaders agreed on new fiscal rules enshrining tougher budget discipline, an EU official said, after the European Central Bank doused hopes of dramatic action on its part to arrest the euro area's debt crisis.

12/12/2011 | World

Ratings agencies Moody's, Standard & Poor's put pressure on euro zone

Moody's Investors Service said it still expects to review its ratings on all European Union sovereign credit in the first quarter of next year, while Standard & Poor's chief economist said time was running out for the currency bloc to resolve its debt problems.

25/03/2012 | World

Obama urges China to rein in North Korea in nuclear standoff

US President Barack Obama urged China to use its influence to stop North Korea's "bad behavior" in a nuclear standoff with the West and hinted at tougher sanctions if the reclusive state goes ahead with a rocket launch next month.

01/11/2011 | World

Sarkozy, Merkel to speak later today

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will call German Chancellor Angela Merkel today after Greece's decision to hold a referendum on a 130 billion euro ($180 billion) bailout, the French president's office said.

04/11/2011 | World

Final Communiqué of G20 leaders summit in Cannes

24/11/2011 | World

Sarkozy, Merkel agree to stop sniping on ECB crisis

France and Germany agreed today to stop arguing in public over whether the European Central Bank should do more to rescue the euro zone from a deepening sovereign debt crisis.

20/10/2011 | World

EU agrees on bank capital needs, split over bailout fund

The European Union has agreed that around 100 billion euros is needed to recapitalise the European banking system, but splits remain before a high-profile summit on Sunday over how to strengthen the euro zone's bailout fund.

22/10/2011 | World

EU leaders meet on debt crisis, hope for Wednesday deal

European Union leaders hold talks tomorrow to try to hammer out a comprehensive plan for tackling the euro zone debt crisis, but a breakthrough is not expected until another summit on Wednesday.

26/10/2011 | World

Euro zone aims to leverage EFSF 'several fold', draft statement says

The euro zone aims to leverage its 440 billion euro bailout fund, the EFSF, "several fold" but finance ministers will only agree the details of how that will be done in November, according to a draft statement to be issued after a summit today.

23/03/2011 | World

Austerity measures continue to rattle Portugal

Portugal's parliament is expected to reject government austerity measures today, setting the stage for the possible collapse of the minority Socialist administration a day before a European summit.

26/05/2011 | World

G8 Summit: Powers urge Yemen leader to go

Leaders of the Group of Eight called on Yemen's president to quit, hoping to avert civil war flaring up in one part of the Arab world as they prepared to help new democracies flourish in another.

20/07/2011 | World

Merkel confident euro summit will find solution

Germany's Angela Merkel believes tomorrow's summit of euro zone leaders will agree on a new Greek bailout, while her talks with France's Nicolas Sarkozy later today will help Europe find such a solution, an aide said.

07/12/2012 | Latin America

Mercosur accepts Bolivia's membership during Summit in Brasilia

29/06/2012 | Latin America

'No impeachment proceedings can last two hours,' CFK defends Lugo at Mercosur summit

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner opened the second day at the Mercosur leaders summit being held in Mendoza province with a strong speach against the recent lightning-quick impeachment against Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo.

31/07/2012 | Latin America

'Venezuela's entry to Mercosur strengthens the region,' CFK

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured today during a press conference held at the Mercosur summit in Brasilia, that Venezuela’s entry to the bloc “strengthens the entire region.”

06/12/2012 | Latin America

Venezuela's Chavez likely to miss Brazil summit due to health

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will not attend a regional trade summit in Brazil, sources said.

19/06/2012 | Latin America

Diplomats agree on 'weak' text for Rio+20 green summit

Diplomats from over 190 countries agreed on a draft text on green global development  to be approved this week at a summit in Rio de Janeiro, but environmentalists complained the agreement was too weak.

26/06/2012 | Latin America

Lugo says will not attend Mercosur summit

Ousted Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo announced that he will not be attending the coming Mercosur summit scheduled to take place this Thursday and Friday in Mendoza.

27/06/2012 | Latin America

Mercosur social summit begins debating Lugo's removal from office

The XVth social Mercosur summit began today and will continue on Thursday in Mendoza province, where authorities and civil organizations of the regional bloc will debate over the role and importance of democracy in South America and the importance of strengthening social inclusion policies with civic participation.

14/04/2012 | Latin America

'Another summit without Cuba is unacceptable'

As the sixth Summit of the Americas began in Cartagena, Colombian President assured that Cuba's absence in another regional summit would be unacceptable. Leaders from 33 nations at the Organization of American states take part.Hot topics include controversies over Cuba and the Malvinas, trade tensions and a new look at the war on drugs.

14/04/2012 | Latin America

'We cannot allow our industries to be ravaged,' Rousseff

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff staunchly defended Latin American integration as she took part of the CEO forum at the 6th Summit of the Americas in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. She blasted rich countries over their so called “monetary flooding” because it attempts against the industrialization of emerging nations.

16/04/2012 | Latin America

Summit concludes without joint declaration, split over Cuba and Malvinas

The 6th Summit of the Americas ended yesterday in the Colombian city of Cartagena de indias without a joint declaration thanks to divisions over Cuba and Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands.

28/07/2011 | Latin America

CFK takes part of UNASUR summit in Peru

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner took part of the Union of South American Unions summit in Lima, after Peruvian President Ollanta Humala took office.

30/10/2011 | Latin America

Malvinas: Ibero-American leaders back Argentina at summit

The nations that form part of the Ibero-American bloc reaffirmed the need to renegotiate over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands today, bringing up the resolutions made by the international community that advise the United Kingdom to avoid carrying out “one-sided” actions, such as exploiting resources and military action.

08/03/2012 | Latin America

Cuba calls exclusion from regional summit 'unacceptable'

Cuba said it was "unacceptable" that it will not be invited to an upcoming hemispheric summit in Colombia and blamed the United States for insisting that Cuba be excluded.