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25.000 tons of wool for China

The Beijing government promised to acquire 25.000 tons of Uruguayan industrialised wool and open its market to dairy produce and fresh fruit, following an official visit to China by Uruguayan vice president Luis Hierro. "Uruguay is betting strongly in China, a country with which we have an excellent relation and is one of our foreign policy priorities", said Mr. Hierro in Beijing. Mr. Hierro said that Uruguay "needs the Asian giant as a political and economic reference, in a world that up to now has been dominated by United States and the European Union". Mr. Hierro said that Uruguay "fully backs Beijing aspiration to become a World Trade Organisation full member", and added that in spite of the "its limited market, Uruguay is an excellent door of access for Chinese long term investments targeted to Mercosur". The Chinese government also committed itself to a more transparent import licencing system to boost bilateral trade and to "authorize Chinese provinces to acquire Uruguayan produce directly". China has been for the last fifteen years Uruguay's main market for greasy and industrialised wool.

Shackleton targets Vinson peak

This is the first time Scottish born Brian Shackleton, 49, visits Antarctica but he's passion for mountain climbing will make his goal of reaching the Vinson peak, a particularly challenging task given his illustrious name. A long distant relative of the world famous Antarctic explorer, Brian Shackleton, a systems engineer working for BAE, visited Punta Arenas together with other five members of the British team that is preparing to climb Antarctica's highest peak. The team is headed by experienced mountain climber Andy Salter who has conquered some of the highest mountains in the world and now is targeting for Vinson and sometime next year Aconcagua, South America's summit. In a brief interview with the Chilean press in Punta Arenas, Shackleton and Salter said that climbing the Vinson mountain was not particularly difficult, but weather conditions and freezing temperatures were the main challenges. Mr. Salter this year reached the top of Kilimanjaro in Africa and McKinlay in North America.

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