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Created
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06BUENOSAIRES1246
2006-06-05 11:11:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Buenos Aires
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IRAN IMF
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UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 001246
SIPDIS
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC,
WHA/EPSC
CDR USSOCOM FOR J-2 IAD/LAMA
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IRAN IMF
DELEGATION TO ARGENTINA UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN PERU 06/02/06
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 001246
SIPDIS
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC,
WHA/EPSC
CDR USSOCOM FOR J-2 IAD/LAMA
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IRAN IMF
DELEGATION TO ARGENTINA UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN PERU 06/02/06
1. SUMMARY STATEMENT
Today's local papers report on the US debate on the US
immigration legislation; the status of negotiations with
Iran on the suspension of its uranium enrichment program;
the IMF delegation's visit to Argentina; and the upcoming
presidential elections in Peru.
2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES
- "Bush pressures over immigration legislation"
Hugo Alconada Mon, Washington-based correspondent for daily-
of-record "La Nacion," writes (06/02) "US President George
W. Bush asked the US Congress to accelerate the negotiations
to come to an agreement on how to reform the questioned
immigration system of the US, in which 12 million immigrants
are undocumented and another half a million every year.
"The debate has opened several fronts within both parties,
but particularly in the G.O.P. and in the (US) Lower
House... This disagreement seems to expand as November
legislative elections get closer."
- "Iran wants to hold talks but not on the conditions
imposed by the US"
Ana Baron, Washington-based correspondent for leading
"Clarin," comments (06/02) "US President George W. Bush
urged Iranian leaders yesterday to leave aside their
'contumacy' and warned them that if they do not suspend
their uranium enrichment program and sitdown to hold serious
negotiations, the UN Security Council will impose sanctions
on them.
"Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki replied that 'We
are determined to hold negotiations, but not based on
previous conditions, particularly those related to our
rights to civil nuclear technology.'
"US President Bush's words gained more importance when just
a few hours later, it transcended in Vienna that the five
permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany
came to an agreement to submit incentives to Iran to get it
to renounce its uranium enrichment program, or if it does
not agree, impose a set of sanctions on it... The fact that
the US has agreed to sit to negotiate with Iran may have
made available some kinds of concessions."
- "Peru, another battle in the 'Cold War' the region is
going through"
Dolores Tereso, on special assignment in Lima for daily-of-
record "La Nacion," writes (06/02) "Amid an atmosphere full
of tension and uncertainty, only two days away from the
second round of Peruvian presidential elections, both
candidates made stronger charges against each other...
"While the two candidates were getting ready for the final
events before elections, nationalist Ollanta Humala accused
his rival, former president Alan Garcia, of being a 'US
soldier.' For his part, the former president, who has termed
these elections as a fight 'between Peru and Hugo Chavez,'
said that, if the retired military wins, his country 'will
become a settlement of Venezuela.'
"... This struggle takes place in the middle of the progress
made by the left wing in the region - except Colombia, where
conservative Alvaro Uribe was reelected last Sunday - and a
clear division between the two models represented by Garcia
and Humala."
- "The IMF delegation came looking for the dark side of
economic growth"
Business-financial "El Cronista's" economic columnist Juan
Cerruti writes (06/02) "The IMF delegation that is auditing
the country's economic status has been in Argentina for two
weeks, and it already has one certainty and one doubt. It is
certain that the Argentine economy will surely grow during
this year more than the 7.3% the IMF forecasted in early
2006. The doubt emerges from the Argentine government's
strategy to tame inflation, which is based on price accords.
"Actually, the IMF delegation, led by Indian economist
Ranjiv Teja..., insists on a lower dollar value and bigger
tax control as tools to put a brake on prices."
To see more Buenos Aires reporting, visit our classified
website at:
http://www.state.sqov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires
GUTIERREZ
SIPDIS
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC,
WHA/EPSC
CDR USSOCOM FOR J-2 IAD/LAMA
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION US IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IRAN IMF
DELEGATION TO ARGENTINA UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN PERU 06/02/06
1. SUMMARY STATEMENT
Today's local papers report on the US debate on the US
immigration legislation; the status of negotiations with
Iran on the suspension of its uranium enrichment program;
the IMF delegation's visit to Argentina; and the upcoming
presidential elections in Peru.
2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES
- "Bush pressures over immigration legislation"
Hugo Alconada Mon, Washington-based correspondent for daily-
of-record "La Nacion," writes (06/02) "US President George
W. Bush asked the US Congress to accelerate the negotiations
to come to an agreement on how to reform the questioned
immigration system of the US, in which 12 million immigrants
are undocumented and another half a million every year.
"The debate has opened several fronts within both parties,
but particularly in the G.O.P. and in the (US) Lower
House... This disagreement seems to expand as November
legislative elections get closer."
- "Iran wants to hold talks but not on the conditions
imposed by the US"
Ana Baron, Washington-based correspondent for leading
"Clarin," comments (06/02) "US President George W. Bush
urged Iranian leaders yesterday to leave aside their
'contumacy' and warned them that if they do not suspend
their uranium enrichment program and sitdown to hold serious
negotiations, the UN Security Council will impose sanctions
on them.
"Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki replied that 'We
are determined to hold negotiations, but not based on
previous conditions, particularly those related to our
rights to civil nuclear technology.'
"US President Bush's words gained more importance when just
a few hours later, it transcended in Vienna that the five
permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany
came to an agreement to submit incentives to Iran to get it
to renounce its uranium enrichment program, or if it does
not agree, impose a set of sanctions on it... The fact that
the US has agreed to sit to negotiate with Iran may have
made available some kinds of concessions."
- "Peru, another battle in the 'Cold War' the region is
going through"
Dolores Tereso, on special assignment in Lima for daily-of-
record "La Nacion," writes (06/02) "Amid an atmosphere full
of tension and uncertainty, only two days away from the
second round of Peruvian presidential elections, both
candidates made stronger charges against each other...
"While the two candidates were getting ready for the final
events before elections, nationalist Ollanta Humala accused
his rival, former president Alan Garcia, of being a 'US
soldier.' For his part, the former president, who has termed
these elections as a fight 'between Peru and Hugo Chavez,'
said that, if the retired military wins, his country 'will
become a settlement of Venezuela.'
"... This struggle takes place in the middle of the progress
made by the left wing in the region - except Colombia, where
conservative Alvaro Uribe was reelected last Sunday - and a
clear division between the two models represented by Garcia
and Humala."
- "The IMF delegation came looking for the dark side of
economic growth"
Business-financial "El Cronista's" economic columnist Juan
Cerruti writes (06/02) "The IMF delegation that is auditing
the country's economic status has been in Argentina for two
weeks, and it already has one certainty and one doubt. It is
certain that the Argentine economy will surely grow during
this year more than the 7.3% the IMF forecasted in early
2006. The doubt emerges from the Argentine government's
strategy to tame inflation, which is based on price accords.
"Actually, the IMF delegation, led by Indian economist
Ranjiv Teja..., insists on a lower dollar value and bigger
tax control as tools to put a brake on prices."
To see more Buenos Aires reporting, visit our classified
website at:
http://www.state.sqov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires
GUTIERREZ