MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 2004
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Monday, September 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Violent Chilean anniversary.
Three people with bullet injuries and over 200 arrests, was the final count of the violent protests in Santiago and other Chilean cities last Saturday, the 31st anniversary of the military coup led by former General Augusto Pinochet.
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Monday, September 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
“We must make Islanders feel they belong to Argentina”
”We have to make (Falklands) Islanders feel (without aggression or anything of the sort) that they are in a territory that belongs to Argentina; they must accept that they are over 13,000 kilometers away from London and geographically speaking they belong to Argentina”, Cesar Mayoral, Argentine Ambassador before United Nations is quoted in a Sunday interview with the Buenos Aires Herald.
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Monday, September 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
US and Canadian interest in Falklands oil exploration.
Several North American companies have expressed an interest in Falklands' oil exploration, the Mineral Resources Committee heard last week.
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Sunday, September 12th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Project for Mercosur regional Defence Office.
Mercosur member countries, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, plus associate members Chile and Bolivia are considering the establishment of a regional Defence Secretariat which could then advance in regional defence matters.
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Sunday, September 12th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Foot and mouth in Brazilian Amazon.
Brazilian authorities confirmed Saturday the discovery of foot-and-mouth in the Amazon region, where a previous outbreak was reported almost three months ago.
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Sunday, September 12th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Gibraltar celebrates “self-determination is democracy”.
Thousands of Gibraltarians dressed in the Rock's national colours - red and white - celebrated their annual National Day last Friday September 10 under the banner ‘self-determination is democracy', reported The Gibraltar Chronicle.
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Sunday, September 12th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
US bank donates 680,000 acres in Tierra del Fuego.
United States Investment Bank Goldman Sachs formalized this week in Punta Arenas the unprecedented gift of a sprawling wilderness in Chile to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
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Sunday, September 12th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur-EU “joint assessment” in Brasilia.
Mercosur member country ministers will be meeting this Sunday in Brasilia with European Union Trade Commissar Pascal Lamy for a “joint assessment” of the difficult bilateral negotiations, said Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim.
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Saturday, September 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
9/11 New York
Last year, children's voices echoed across ground zero. This year, it is the bereaved parents and grandparents of World Trade Center victims who will read aloud the names of those lost on September 11, 2001.
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Friday, September 10th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Cardiff visits Valparaiso.
South Atlantic Patrol Task HMS Cardiff is scheduled to arrive Friday afternoon in Valaparaíso, Chile's main port, where she's expected to remain until September 15.
