MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for January 2004
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Monday, January 19th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Closer ties between India and Mercosur
Mercosur members and India have scheduled a meeting in late January when a tariff preference agreement will be signed, said Marco Aurelio García, Brazilian presidential advisor for international relations.
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Monday, January 19th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
New Air Force One for President Lula
By the end of the year the Brazilian presidency will have a brand new state of the art 56,7 million US dollars ACJ Airbus replacing an old “junky” Boeing 707 built in the seventies.
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Monday, January 19th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Gibraltar: Blair promises “sensible” agreement with Spain.
British Primer Minister Tony Blair said he would continue to try to reach a ”sensible'' agreement with Spain over the future of Gibraltar.
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Monday, January 19th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Antigua flagged vessel arrives February with Argentine Memorial
An Antigua-Barbuda flagged vessel will be carrying the blocks for the Memorial in honour of the Argentine servicemen fallen during the Falklands conflict in 1982 that is to be assembled and finalized in the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, reports this Monday Buenos Aires daily La Nación.
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Saturday, January 17th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
IMF's lending to Argentina 'risks breaking rules'
The International Monetary Fund is in danger of breaking its own rules by continuing to lend to Argentina despite the Argentines' fractious and litigious negotiations with their bondholders, according to the leading association of global financial institutions.
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Friday, January 16th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
Headlines:
Charter ban “irrational”; Myriam signs off after 43 years; Seven days of cruise visits; Cause of penguin deaths proven; Hospital drugs arrest. -
Friday, January 16th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Chile-Bolivia relations deteriorate further.
Chile said Thursday that Bolivia's recent verbal escalation of a dispute over Pacific coastline, far from paving the way toward progress, has put the centenarian issue “back to square one.”
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Friday, January 16th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina opens hake fishery south of parallel 41°
The Argentine National Undersecretary of Fishery and Aquaculture has authorised the extraction of 69,200 tonnes of Argentine hake (hubbsi) during the first three months of 2004 for vessels operating to the south of parallel 41º S.
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Friday, January 16th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Military tortured commando trainees in democratic Argentina.
The government revealed Thursday that the military engaged in torture techniques at a commando training camp years after Argentina's return to democracy, a disclosure that human rights organizations described as “the tip of an iceberg.”
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Friday, January 16th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Former HMS Sheffield in Puerto Belgrano
Chilean frigate “Almirante Williams”, former “HMS Sheffield”, currently berthed in Argentina's main naval base, Puerto Belgrano, was visited Friday morning by the Defence ministers of Chile and Argentina, Michelle Bachelet and José Pampuro.
