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Stories for July 2003

• Tuesday, July 8th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Foreign office post but a 'Falklands' family.

  Russ and Joan Jarvis and their son Andrew came to the Islands over six years ago when Mr Jarvis took up the Foreign and Commonwealth post, Government House First Secretary.
  
  His contracts now completed, Mr Jarvis and his family leave the Islands this month.
  
  Earlier this week Mr Jarvis chatted to Rodrigo Cordeiro about his time in the Falklands.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner tops public opinion ratings.

  Argentine President Nestor Kirchner in office since last May 25 has a positive image among 90,3% of the population according to a poll published this Sunday in the Buenos Aires press. The opinion poll also indicates that his strong standing has reduced his negative image to a mere 1,8% of interviews.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  “FTAA on track”, says US.

  The Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, that should become effective in 2005 involving 34 countries of the Americas “is 90% concluded, although we still have to solve, agriculture and intellectual property, which are the toughest issues”, remarked United States Ambassador Luis Lauredo in Guatemala.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean scars remain unhealed

  Thirty years after the 1973 bloody military coup that enthroned dictator Augusto Pinochet, 87% of Chileans believe the country still has not achieved national reconciliation, according to a public opinion poll published last Sunday in Santiago's main daily El Mercurio.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Appeal to the Argentine Armed Forces

  Addressing the top brass of the Armed Forces on Monday night Argentine president Nestor Kirchner told officers from the three services that “we can't take charge of the painful moments of our fatherland without contributing to the truth”, and further on emphasized that the re-encounter of Argentines “must not come from silence and complicity”.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner-Blair meeting

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner will be leaving Thursday night for London to begin a week long meeting with European leaders in France, Spain and Brussels where he will be meeting EU Executive Committee president Romano Prodi.

• Monday, July 7th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Recovering the Falklands is “important”.

  The poll contracted by President Kirchner's administration is taken regularly to monitor public opinion response to government's decisions and announcements.

• Monday, July 7th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Lan Chile faces drastic fine.

  The Chilean Fiscal Prosecutor after carefully studying the case presented against Lan Chile by citizens organizations from Punta Arenas has proposed the Chilean flag carrier be drastically fined the equivalent of 250,000 US dollars for having allegedly breached in 37 occasions air fare legislation. The proposed fine is the highest under the current legislation.

• Monday, July 7th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  End of the “submission taboo”.

  Argentine Chief of cabinet said that President Nestor Kirchner ended the “submission taboo” towards the International Monetary Fund, IMF that ruled Argentina's relations with the multilateral credit organization during the nineties

• Monday, July 7th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  IMF cuts Chile's growth estimate.

  In spite of praising the achievements of the Chilean economy, an IMF staff mission visiting Chile ended its tour lowering the country's growth estimate for 2004 from 4,8 to 4,5%.