ARGENTINA and AFRICA

<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1QmjmuNdQF0EiSofvhxukc8oUu_HkO2_cw5X3cwtQvlqLDjNm15gZ38m8fiDQWgHtv6MxFxhTaa8qPdtWvslOIb7w5Zi1G9qoU3uMoqjbO4u19SQe2VFLPd5fkga4s8bg4ByRRT9tI-3/s1600/africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1QmjmuNdQF0EiSofvhxukc8oUu_HkO2_cw5X3cwtQvlqLDjNm15gZ38m8fiDQWgHtv6MxFxhTaa8qPdtWvslOIb7w5Zi1G9qoU3uMoqjbO4u19SQe2VFLPd5fkga4s8bg4ByRRT9tI-3/s400/africa.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AFRICA IS FORECAST TO EMERGE AS THE FASTEST-GROWING REGION IN THE WORLD OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS.</span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA'S </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> WISE FORESIGHT</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><i>Spanish version of this article will follow in due course</i> </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">GEOPOLITICAL REPERCUSSIONS ON ARGENTINE</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">   PRESIDENT'S LATEST STATE VISIT TO ANGOLA</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA’S foresight in seeking economic ties with AFRICAN counties such as ANGOLA, SOUTH AFRICA etc. will prove to be priceless in the not too distant future for ARGENTINA, because AFRICA is the “rising continent” that many countries seem to have neglected for various reasons. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SUB SAHARA AFRICA, EMERGING MARKETS OF TOMORROW</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In 2012, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA is rapidly coming of age as an economic region and as an investment destination. The so-called "frontier" markets of today's AFRICA will be the emerging markets of tomorrow.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Over the next five years, according to the IMF, seven economies in SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA are expected to be among the ten fastest growing economies in the world. In 2011, the economy of GHANA grew by 13.7%, while ETHIOPIA'S grew by 8.5%. Elsewhere, the MOZAMBIQUE economy grew by 7.5%, NIGERIA and ZAMBIA by 6.8%, and the Democratic Republic of CONGO by 6.5%. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA seems to be one of the countries that understand what this means, and the opportunity it presents. ARGENTINA has what AFRICA needs most: Nutritious food supply, agriculture technology and engineering know-how, water and health care, mining industry know-how to name but a few. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AFRICA: ENORMOUS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA, just like AUSTRALIA could jump the bandwagon and benefit from the mining boom. There are around 200 AUSTRALIAN mining companies with operations in AFRICA, and they are involved in projects valued in excess of $45 billion. ARGENTINA on the other hand herself experiences a mining boom that will boost its economy, thus ARGENTINA could increase its presence on the continent by providing professional services, education and infrastructure projects.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A perfect example for the emerging market trend in AFRICA is AUSTRALIA. Following Two-way trade between AFRICAN countries and AUSTRALIA is reaching $5 billion a year, and has been on an upward trajectory for several years. </span></span><br /><br /><div style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AFRICA IS FORECAST TO EMERGE AS THE FASTEST-GROWING REGION IN THE WORLD OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS.</span></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Seeking economic ties with the continent augurs well for the future, both for AFRICA and ARGENTINA. AFRICA is forecast to emerge as the fastest-growing region in the world over the next 20 years. To realize this growth, it will have to nurture a number of key competitive advantages: the world's richest mineral and energy deposits, the most arable land, and what is predicted to be the </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">youngest population in the world by 2050</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">S current prosperity is largely due to its own resource boom. By mid-century, that boom may well have extended to AFRICA and helped drive a huge wave of supplementary development, raising living and education standards throughout the continent. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According to inside sources ARGENTINA is planning to establish liaison offices for international trade in various AFRICAN countries. AFRICA, the continent will be looming large on more than just ARGENTINA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">S investment radar in the coming decades. And if we can keep economies open for multilateral investment, this will present an opportunity for everyone.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">DEROGATIVE COMMENT BY RENOWNED ARGENTINE JOURNALIST <span style="color: blue;">JORGE LANATA</span> ON CURRENT STATE VISIT TO ANGOLA BY ARGENTINIAN PRESIDENT</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">In view of above mentioned facts, it seems strange that a renowned ARGENTINE journalist such as JORGE LANATA, criticized the ARGENTINE President, who visited ANGOLA in order to increase economic ties between the countries and generate bilateral business ventures.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">ACCORDING TO LANATA, ARGENTINA SHOULD FOCUS ON ECONOMIC TIES WITH EUROPE AND THE USA RATHER THEN AFRICA!!</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">When allegedly asked by a journalist what he, LANATA thought about ARGENTINA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">S AFRICAN venture he condemned the ARGENTINE government and responded in a derogative way: “This is our future”?, referring to ARGENTINA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">S Economic and Geopolitical focus on AFRICA, instead of EUROPE and the USA!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">In view of the current economic growth Africa is experiencing, such comment seems rather inadequate to say the least, or show rather decisive ignorance, lack of objectivity and Geo- and Eco-political know-how. </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z0UMb4F8tSE?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">See:  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Angola">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Angola</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.angolaglobal.net/en/news-about-angola/Angola-will-be-fifth-in-the-ranking-of-African-economies/773">http://www.angolaglobal.net/en/news-about-angola/Angola-will-be-fifth-in-the-ranking-of-African-economies/773</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-09/angola-economy-to-grow-estimated-7-in-2012-as-oil-output-gains.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-09/angola-economy-to-grow-estimated-7-in-2012-as-oil-output-gains.html</a></span></div>

ARGENTINA and AFRICA

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