MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 2001
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Friday, April 20th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News
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Thursday, April 19th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
New Appointment for Falklands and British Antarctic Diplomat.
The senior Foreign Office Official with major responsibility for Falklands and Antarctic Affairs for the past four years, Mr John White, has been appointed High Commissioner to Barbados in the Caribbean, and will take up his post there in August.
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Thursday, April 19th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Islands help save children in El Salvador.
Falkland Islands Government has donated £5,000 towards Save the Children (UK) programme ?Providing Clean Water in El Salvador', following the earthquakes of January and February 2001 which affected approximately a quarter of the population, caused over 1,000 deaths and damaged or destroyed hospitals, health facilities, schools and many thousands of homes.
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Wednesday, April 18th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Quebec presidential summit
This Friday and during the weekend 34 presidents of the three Americas (with the exception of Cuba) will be discussing in Quebec, Canada, the recent documents drafted in Buenos Aires and Toronto for the creation a Free Trade Association extending from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, potentially turning the area into the world's main block: 800 million people and double the European Union GDP.
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Wednesday, April 18th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Fish Plant ? Further Diversification in Camp
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Tuesday, April 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Too few Falklands female reindeer
The reindeers transported from South Georgia to the Falkland Islands at a cost of £154,000 (230-thousand dollars) will not reproduce as rapidly as hoped as too few of them are females.
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Tuesday, April 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Foot-and-Mouth forces UK Commandos to train in United States
British Royal Marines are being forced to utilise United States training areas because their own traditional training grounds on Dartmoor , Southern England, have been closed by restrictions to combat the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic among farm animals.
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Tuesday, April 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
FIDF building over budget ? unfair comment
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Tuesday, April 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Peso as strong as the Euro and the dollar
Argentina's super Economy minister Domingo Cavallo has once again shaken financial markets with his latest initiative: changing the current convertibility system of one Argentine peso-one US dollar, by making it extensive to one Euro.
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Monday, April 16th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguayan president in Japan
Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle and a numerous delegation of businessmen are currently in Japan promoting trade and investments.
