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Stories for June 11th 2003

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Antartic search for Shackleton's ship

  Two rival expeditions are planning to launch a search for the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, which was trapped by the ice and sank somewhere in the Weddell Sea during the explorer's abortive 1914 attempt to be the first to cross Antarctica.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Blair Iraq Inquiry unlike Falkland's example

  The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has come in for criticism for failing to follow Margaret Thatcher's example after the Falklands War agree by his refusal to set up an independent committee to inquire into his government's conduct of the war against Iraq.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner receives Powell and visits Lula.

  Unites States Secretary of State Colin Powell in a brief visit to Buenos Aires (two and a half hours) met Tuesday morning with Argentine President Néstor Kirchner and described the event as an “encounter of friends”.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS supports Argentina's Falklands claim.

  The Organization of American States, OAS, 33rd. General Assembly meeting in Santiago de Chile approved by acclamation the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and United Kingdom in order to find as soon as possible a solution to the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay, “50 years behind”.

  The European Commission delegate in Montevideo highlighted that a successful market access means satisfying European consumers and not insisting with the same fixed supply of goods of the last half century.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  “Let us live as neighbours” plea to Argentina.

  The Falkland Islands Government have wished well to Argentina's new President, Mr Nestor Kirchner, in restoring his country's economy and expressed the hope there can be a new era of co-operation based on the Falkland Islanders' fundamental right to self-determination, their wish to remain British, and dropping of Argentina's sovereignty claim.