Economy Minister Axel Kicillof today referred
to the vulture fund battle amid failed negotiations with holdouts, and
said that saying Argentina defaulted on its debt is an "atomic nonsense"
adding "those who today cheer the apocalypse, applauded the 2001
(crisis)."
During a press conference held this afternoon at the Economy Ministry, Kicillof warned US judge Thomas Griesa, who led the Argetnine debt case, "is endagering the 92 percent of exchange bondholders to favour vulture funds."
“There is no default. There are collection problems due to a judiciary sentence. The money held by judge Griesa is not ours, it belongs to bondholders,” argued Kicillof, adding the New York judge’s way of handling negotiations are “Guinness record material” thanks to his “incongruence.”
AGREEMENT BETWEEN PRIVATES
Kicillof also warned there is a “campaign to seed uncertainty, panic and terror” in reference to media articles that insinuated yesterday the conference he held crushed the deal between private banks and holdouts.
“There have been a lot of badly informed, malicious opinions circulating. The government’s attitude towards them is to continue working, as we have a lot to do,” he said.
Kicillof told reporters the government does not oppose an “agreement between private parts” although he highlighted there are “some conditions” for a pact like that to come through.
“What the government cannot do is to pay holdouts more than it paid exchange bondholders, because of the RUFO clause that forbids that exact operation. Also, the government cannot take part in a negotiation between private banks and vultures because of the same reason. As this situation affects private banks because the bonds they hold would lose price, they have an incentive to reach an agreement,” he concluded.
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/165969/economy-minister-kicillof-rejects-argentina-defaulted-on-its-debt-there-is-a-campaign-to-seed-uncertainty
31/7/14
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During a press conference held this afternoon at the Economy Ministry, Kicillof warned US judge Thomas Griesa, who led the Argetnine debt case, "is endagering the 92 percent of exchange bondholders to favour vulture funds."
“There is no default. There are collection problems due to a judiciary sentence. The money held by judge Griesa is not ours, it belongs to bondholders,” argued Kicillof, adding the New York judge’s way of handling negotiations are “Guinness record material” thanks to his “incongruence.”
- The Economy Minister explained default can be reached in four ways: not paying, non-compliance of other obligations, moratorium, and validity (in the case the Argentine Government objects the validity of the bonds).
AGREEMENT BETWEEN PRIVATES
Kicillof also warned there is a “campaign to seed uncertainty, panic and terror” in reference to media articles that insinuated yesterday the conference he held crushed the deal between private banks and holdouts.
“There have been a lot of badly informed, malicious opinions circulating. The government’s attitude towards them is to continue working, as we have a lot to do,” he said.
Kicillof told reporters the government does not oppose an “agreement between private parts” although he highlighted there are “some conditions” for a pact like that to come through.
“What the government cannot do is to pay holdouts more than it paid exchange bondholders, because of the RUFO clause that forbids that exact operation. Also, the government cannot take part in a negotiation between private banks and vultures because of the same reason. As this situation affects private banks because the bonds they hold would lose price, they have an incentive to reach an agreement,” he concluded.
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/165969/economy-minister-kicillof-rejects-argentina-defaulted-on-its-debt-there-is-a-campaign-to-seed-uncertainty
31/7/14
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Cristina exaltó al ministro y criticó la propuesta de los banqueros...
ReplyDeleteHabló por cadena nacional y disparó que el plan de ADEBA era un arreglo “con recursos de los argentinos”.
Guido Braslavsky
En su primer y muy esperado discurso tras el fracaso de las negociaciones con los fondos buitre en Nueva York, Cristina Kirchner volvió a negar que la Argentina haya caído en default y le dio un claro respaldo a Axel Kicillof. También quedó claro que la Presidenta estuvo detrás de las lapidarias críticas del ministro al plan de los banqueros privados para supuestamente comprarle la deuda a los holdouts: “Hacerlo con los recursos de los argentinos, así cualquiera es generoso”, ironizó Cristina, en sintonía con Kicillof. Y aludió sin nombrarlo al banquero Jorge Brito, protagonista de la movida para negociar con los buitres: “Para ser San Martín no alcanza solamente con que te pongan en un diario como salvador de la Patria ”, disparó.
La Presidenta habló 53 minutos por cadena nacional. “Es 31 de julio y el mundo sigue andando”, arrancó, buscando desdramatizar que se pasó la fecha límite y los bonistas reestructurados no cobraron. Saliendo al cruce de cuestionamientos de la oposición, afirmó que “no pensamos en el Gobierno y que reviente el que viene. Pensamos en el país”. Para ahuyentar la idea de una mala gestión del Gobierno, involucró a Mauricio Macri, quien en la audiencia secreta que mantuvieron en Olivos semanas atrás, le dijo que con US$ 1.500 millones como primer pago el Club de París aceptaría un acuerdo, pero que su Gobierno lo cerró “con menos de la mitad”. La Presidenta también se ufanó de que la millonaria indemnización concedida a Repsol por YPF se arregló “por la mitad” de los US$ 10 mil millones que la petrolera reclamaba en el CIADI.
La Presidenta fue crítica con el mediador Daniel Pollack y con el juez Thomas Griesa, cuya sentencia calificó de “casi usuraria”. “El default selectivo no existe, no figura como causa la imposibilidad de cobrar. Van a tener que inventar otra palabra”, insistió............................http://www.clarin.com/edicion-impresa/Cristina-ministro-critico-propuesta-banqueros_0_1185481490.html
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