Stories for October 29th 2003

Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

Fisheries News.

Headlines:
Toothfish poaching top of CCAMLR meeting agenda; Spain remains in first position as Argentine fish buyer; Fisheries protocol with Cape Verde extended; Korean businessmen express their interest in Vigo; 'World Pelagics' conference launches 'Fish Africa 2003'; Farmed salmon escape causes chaos in the X Region; EU overexploits African waters, says WWF;ICES hake ban could moor Galician thirty vessels;

Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

DAP presents Havilland Dash-7

Punta Arenas based DAP airlines officially presented this Monday its latest acquisition, the 50 seats Havilland Dash-7 that will be combining air and sea cruises to Antarctica.

Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

Vessel with nuclear waste en route to Cape Horn?

A vessel loaded with radioactive residual materials left this Monday from Australia en route to France and one of the optional routes is Cape Horn, claim Greenpeace activists in Sydney and Argentina. The other is Cape of Good Hope.

Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

Lula, Kirchner and Lagos, the most respected.

The presidents from Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentina, Nestor Kirchner and Chile, Ricardo Lagos are the most respected Latinamerican leaders following an opinion poll among the establishment of six countries of the region.

Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

US federal funds rate remain unchanged at 1%.

The United States Federal Reserve Open Market Committee decided this Tuesday to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 1% and anticipated that “policy accommodation can be maintained for a considerable period”.

Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

Brazil proposes a “light” FTAA.

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's main foreign policy advisor Marco Aurelio García forecasted that the United States sponsored Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, could become effective according to the tentative timetable but “in a far less embracing way than Washington pretends”.

Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

Chile fully supports FTAA timetable.

Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Soledad Alvear said Chile will fully support all efforts to make the Free Trade Association of the Americas “a reality in 2005”.

Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

Falkland Islander believes in “further cooperation” between Islands and Argentina.

Falkland Islander Tony Blake says he believes that it is “erroneous and dangerous” for Falkland Islanders not to be represented at meetings concerning Islanders because “we should be able to clarify some points that people like to make about the Falklands and in a friendly manner persuade people that the impressions that they have of the Islands are wrong.”