Presidential candidate Carlos Menem today said he hopes to be visiting the Falkland Islands as early June, when, if elected in the forthcoming presidential elections, he will be president for the third time and by when he hopes Aerolineas Argentinas will be flying to the Islands.
The head of the IMF' Western Hemisphere Department said he didn't perceive in his conversations with Argentine presidential candidates an openly populist tone and added he was willing to continue working with what ever government is elected next April 27.
Ten countries, eight of them former Soviet republics, this Wednesday joined the European Union after signing an enlargement treaty in the Acropolis of Athens, symbol of democracy, taking the number of EU states to 25, the most ambitious incorporation in the last fifty years.
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, and the World Bank, WB, underscored to the international community the urgency of reaching an agreement in those areas currently been discussed in the framework of the World Trade Organization, WTO, but which remain considerably delayed.
Democrat Congress members have requested President George Bush a quick timetable for the signing of the free trade agreement with Chile, in spite of the South American country's opposition to the war in Iraq.
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With less than two weeks for the crucial presidential election of April 27, the Argentine electorate has turned the dispute into one of the tightest and possibly most complicated election in recent history because of the dispersion of votes.
Argentina is forecasted to grow 3% this year and 4,5% in 2004 according to the International Monetary Fund, IMF mid year World Economic Outlook released this week in Washington.
With just two weeks for the April 27 Paraguayan presidential election, ruling party candidate Nicanor Duarte Frutos leads opinion polls with 34% of vote intention followed by Liberal Party candidate Julio César Franco with 28% and an independent hopeful that musters 24%.