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Stories for October 2004

• Tuesday, October 19th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Repsol-YPF after oil and gas in Iran.

  Spanish-Argentine consortium Repsol-YPF signed an agreement with the Iranian Oil Company for the exploration of hydrocarbons in two blocks in the south of the Persian Gulf, reported this week the company in Madrid.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Nuclear plant inspectors in Brazil.

  Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency are expected this Tuesday in Brazil to view part of its uranium enrichment equipment according to Veja, the country's leading weekly magazine which quotes unnamed government sources.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Lan raises international air fares 15%.

  Lan raised international air fares 15% and plans to raise domestic fares 7% because of the increase in fuel costs.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Walker incident is over, but read Peron's book?

  Argentine and Chilean Foreign Affairs ministers considered this Monday in Montevideo, Uruguay that the diplomatic controversy between both countries was over.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguayan Secretary General for ALADI.

  Twelve Latinamerican Foreign Affairs ministers meeting in Montevideo in the framework of the Latinamerican Integration Association, ALADI, XIIIth General Assembly elected this Monday Uruguayan minister Didier Opertti as the next Secretary General of the organization and committed themselves to consider a Free Trade Space involving the twelve country members.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  ALADI supports Argentina's Falklands claim.

  Latinamerican Integration Association, ALADI, representatives meeting in Montevideo this Monday for the naming of a new Secretary General, gave their full support to Argentina's sovereign foreign debt restructuring efforts and claim over the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner openly support Uruguayan presidential candidate.

  Uruguayan presidential hopeful Tabare Vazquez who leads in the public opinion polls met Monday morning in Buenos Aires with Argentine president Nestor Kirchner.

• Monday, October 18th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil shoot-down policy for unidentified aircrafts

  All suspicious aircraft entering Brazilian airspace which refuses to identify itself will run the risk of being shot down by the Air Force under a new security bill that became effective this Sunday.

• Monday, October 18th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Cuba rejects EU approach.

  The Cuban government's expulsion of a Spanish Member of Parliament and two Dutch legislators is proof that Fidel Castro's Communist regime has no interest in patching up relations with Spain or the European Union, Cuban dissidents said in Havana.

• Monday, October 18th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Sustainable Antarctic tourism challenges.

  Antarctic tourism and threats to the white continent biodiversity and conservation were at the heart of the “Science and Sustainable Tourism” seminar which took place in the framework of the APEC Third Tourism Ministers Encounter in Punta Arenas, sponsored by Magallanes Region government and the Chilean Antarctic Institute.