MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 2001
-
Tuesday, April 10th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
“Fishing, highly dangerous profession”
The European Parliament is calling for a gradual phasing out of fishing vessels over 20 years old from the EU fleet. The recommendation is one of 37 separate measures adopted by the Parliament at a meeting in Strasbourg last week which also considered shocking evidence of the danger of EU fisheries. With 1347 vessel causalities, including 160 deaths, in 1998, fishing “is a highly dangerous profession and a high risk sector”.
-
Tuesday, April 10th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
FIBS Local News.
-
Tuesday, April 10th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands Navy Hero Dies.
The Commander of the frigate which saved the crew of the doomed destroyer HMS Sheffield in the 1982 Falklands conflict, Captain Paul Bootherstone, has died of a heart attack, aged 62, only nine years after leaving the Royal Navy.
-
Monday, April 9th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
March's Fisheries News.
-
Monday, April 9th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Caracas summit.
-
Monday, April 9th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Alan García, the big surprise.
-
Sunday, April 8th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Buenos Aires Declaration
-
Friday, April 6th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News.
-
Friday, April 6th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Venezuela next Mercosur member.
Venezuela has the full backing of Brazil and has been invited to participate in the Mercosur presidential summit of next June in Asunción, Paraguay, when Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will formally request to become an associate member of Mercosur.
-
Friday, April 6th 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Harmony and dissent.
In Toronto the Economy Ministers of the 34 American countries working for the creation of a Free Trade of the Americas association ended their meeting with a release committing themselves to promote social policies and combat poverty, but in Buenos Aires the different groups discussing the mechanics of the future association remain split in two main sides.
