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Stories for 2002

  • Friday, February 8th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    ?Lost' Argentine Pucara found.

    A crashed Argentine Pucara aircraft, which was shot down during the Falklands War, and which has remained virtually undetected ever since, has recently been ?found' in a remote area of the Falklands.

  • Thursday, February 7th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Gibraltar joint sovereignty row.

    Reaction to the talks on Gibraltar's future (on February 4th) between the United Kingdom and Spain indicates that Britain wants the 27,000 Gibraltarians to accept joint Anglo-Spanish sovereignty in exchange for an end to Spanish sanctions and for help and co-operation from Spain.

  • Wednesday, February 6th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    IMF: “world prospects improving”

    International Monetary Fund Managing Director participating in the World Economic Forum in New York, forecasted recovery is underway for the global economy.

  • Wednesday, February 6th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Chile and the European Union closer

    Chile and the European Union are quickly advancing to a free trade agreement that could be officially signed next May in Madrid during the second Euro-American summit, according to Mr. Osvaldo Rosales Director of International Trade Relations in the Chilean Foreign Affairs Ministry.

  • Wednesday, February 6th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    “Tell the world about the Modern Falklands”

    The 20th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict should be used to project a positive picture to the world of the modern Falkland Islands and the tremendous progress made in recent years. That's the view of Lord Hurd, former British Foreign Secretary and the first ever to visit the Falkland Islands -- in 1994.

  • Tuesday, February 5th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Gibraltar: update meetings by Foreign Secretary.

    STATEMENT GIVEN BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, JACK STRAW, TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, LONDON, TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2002

  • Monday, February 4th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Gibraltar's people ought to accept this sensible deal.

    THE FEROCITY with which many Gibraltarians will denounce the deal expected to be announced today between Britain and Spain to share sovereignty over the Rock may be a moment of catharsis. It reflects the understandable feeling of betrayal shared by many other communities left behind by the receding of the red ink from the map of the world. The force of the Gibraltarians' insistence on their Britishness carries echoes of the excessive loyalty to symbols of Britishness demonstrated by the unionists in Northern Ireland.

  • Monday, February 4th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Breaking News from South America.

  • Sunday, February 3rd 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Argentina thrown into fresh chaos

    Argentina was thrown into fresh chaos on Friday when its supreme court declared emergency financial controls to be unconstitutional, raising the prospect that the country's banks will collapse.

  • Sunday, February 3rd 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Long live the peso!

    After several long weeks of international contacts and private deliberations with banks and multilateral organizations, the current Argentine administration believes the crucial moment to thrust forward an economic program that should get the stagnant economy rolling again, has come.