Stories for September 11th 2003

Thursday, September 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Argentina-IMF medium term agreement.

Argentina formalized this Thursday the agreement reached yesterday with the International Monetary Fund when it made effective the transfer of 2,9 billion US dollars in arrears to the multilateral financial organization.

Thursday, September 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Magallanes farmers will have own abattoir.

A group of farmers from Magallanes Region have decided to build a new abattoir putting an end to the controversy over the coming lease of a Chilean government managed plant.

Thursday, September 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

Australia releases Viarsa 1 observer.

The Uruguayan scientific observer who was on board the longliner Viarsa 1 was released Wednesday 10 September and brought ashore at Cape Town, South Africa. He will be returning to Uruguay immediately.