Stories for November 4th 2004
Foreign debt, priority of the Rio Group agenda.
Foreign Affairs ministers and coordinators of the 19 Latinamerican country members of the Rio Group were giving this Wednesday in Rio do Janeiro the final touches to the documents to be signed during the presidential summit Thursday and Friday.
Chilean presidential mandate cut to four years.
The Chilean Senate voted to cut the presidential mandate, beginning 2006, from six to four years without the chance of immediate re-election.
BAS confirms decline in Antarctic krill.
Krill, a tiny crustacean which is the source of food for many Antarctic species such as whales, penguins and seals seems to have undergone a drastic 80% decline since the seventies in the Antarctic Peninsula area according to a report published in Nature magazine by British scientists.
“Meat is the Future,” Falklands farmers told.
Falklands farmers heard an unequivocal message from visiting Australian stud farmer Graham Gilmore last week ? meat is the future for sheep farmers.
Spain: We continue to claim sovereignty over Gibraltar.
The Spanish foreign minister said Wednesday that his government maintains its claim to sovereignty over Gibraltar and will continue to press the issue in a renewed dialogue with Britain.
