MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 2004
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Monday, October 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Agriculture devastating Brazil's grasslands
Devastation of grasslands in Brazil is accelerating and the ecosystems are in danger of disappearing as did the jungle that once covered the country's Atlantic coast, state news agency Agencia Brasil reported this Sunday.
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Monday, October 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay reacts to “gorilla” comment
Relations between Argentina and Uruguay, which have had their ups and downs over the past year, are once again troubled after an Argentine governor called Uruguayan President Jorge Battle a “gorilla,” a nickname for anti-Peronists.
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Monday, October 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur-EU: “final effort” October 20
Mercosur Foreign Affairs ministers agreed last week in Rio do Janeiro to a “last political effort” next October 20 when they meet with European Trade Commissar Pascal Lamy to discuss about the signing of a elusive trade agreement with the EU which so far has proved elusive and controversial.
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Sunday, October 10th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Dumbarton Castle returns
HMS Dumbarton Castle arrived in Stanley Friday morning. She replaces HMS Leeds Castle as the permanent Falkland Islands Patrol Vessel.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
OAS Secretary General resigns
Former Costa Rica president Miguel Angel Rodriguez submitted this Friday his resignation as Secretary General of the Organization of American States, OAS.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
“Kirchner will not shake hands” with Walker
Argentine Foreign Relations Minister Rafael Bielsa stated in an interview that “it won't be possible to work” with his recently named Chilean counterpart Ignacio Walker, following a controversial article where he candidly describes the Peronist party and President Nestor Kirchner in not too kind words.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Roaring oil prices close above 53 US dollars
Oil prices reached a new record high this Friday in New York with a closing price of 53,31 US dollars the barrel for light Texas crude, the highest ever since 1983. In London, Brent crude closed at 49,71 US dollars, also a record.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Bid for EU funded aquaculture training
Following an initiative by Falklands' Councillor Summers during a meeting in Brussels last December, a proposal has been worked on with the French Overseas Territories of St Pierre & Miquelon and with representatives of Greenland (Denmark) for a training course on aquaculture to be funded by the European Commission Development Fund.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
UK Party conferences finish
For the 17th year the Falklands Islands Government had stands at both the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences that were held over the past two weeks in the United Kingdom.
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Saturday, October 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
BAS summer season poised to begin
British Antarctic Survey Twin Otters and the Dash-7 should be arriving in the Falkland Islands next week.
