MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2003
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Thursday, June 12th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Regional Parliament and expansion.
Argentine and Brazilian presidents Nestor Kirchner and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced this Wednesday in Brasilia the creation of a Mercosur Parliament and the expansion of regional integration to include the Andean countries, particularly Peru.
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Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Antartic search for Shackleton's ship
Two rival expeditions are planning to launch a search for the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, which was trapped by the ice and sank somewhere in the Weddell Sea during the explorer's abortive 1914 attempt to be the first to cross Antarctica.
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Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Blair Iraq Inquiry unlike Falkland's example
The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has come in for criticism for failing to follow Margaret Thatcher's example after the Falklands War agree by his refusal to set up an independent committee to inquire into his government's conduct of the war against Iraq.
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Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner receives Powell and visits Lula.
Unites States Secretary of State Colin Powell in a brief visit to Buenos Aires (two and a half hours) met Tuesday morning with Argentine President Néstor Kirchner and described the event as an “encounter of friends”.
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Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
OAS supports Argentina's Falklands claim.
The Organization of American States, OAS, 33rd. General Assembly meeting in Santiago de Chile approved by acclamation the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and United Kingdom in order to find as soon as possible a solution to the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute.
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Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay, “50 years behind”.
The European Commission delegate in Montevideo highlighted that a successful market access means satisfying European consumers and not insisting with the same fixed supply of goods of the last half century.
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Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
“Let us live as neighbours” plea to Argentina.
The Falkland Islands Government have wished well to Argentina's new President, Mr Nestor Kirchner, in restoring his country's economy and expressed the hope there can be a new era of co-operation based on the Falkland Islanders' fundamental right to self-determination, their wish to remain British, and dropping of Argentina's sovereignty claim.
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Tuesday, June 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
MV Tamar says goodbye to Punta Arenas.
MV Tamar concluded this week an uninterrupted cycle of ten years of regular trips between Punta Arenas and the Falkland Islands.
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Tuesday, June 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Powell and Chile's Lagos get past Iraq tiff
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and U.S.Secretary of State Colin Powell met in Santiago on Monday and managed to look past their differences over the war in Iraq.
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Tuesday, June 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Powell Heads for Talks in Argentina.
Secretary of State Colin Powell is on a goodwill mission to Argentina, ready to offer friendship to newly installed President Nestor Kirchner and hoping to put U.S.-Argentine relations on a sounder footing.
