MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 2004
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Thursday, April 22nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Latinamerica forecasted to grow robustly.
Latinamerica expanded a modest 1,7% in 2003 according to the International Monetary Fund six months World Economic Outlook released this week in advance of the coming IMF assembly scheduled to begin this Saturday in Washington.
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Thursday, April 22nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Fed and IMF anticipate higher US interest rates.
Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the United States economy is in vigorous expansion and at some point may need higher interest rates to keep inflation at bay. US interest rates stand at a half century record low of 1%.
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Thursday, April 22nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC
EU top agriculture official visits Mercosur.
European Union Agriculture Commissar Franz Fischler is scheduled in Brazil and Argentina this weekend to further advance in negotiations for the creation of a free trade association between Mercosur and the EU.
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Thursday, April 22nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivian natural gas for Argentina.
Bolivia finally agreed to sell Argentina natural gas, although insisting that the fuel does not end in Chile, with which La Paz maintains a long-standing territorial dispute
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Thursday, April 22nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC
FIBS Breaking News.
Headlines:
Queen's Birthday parade; Falklands Landholding; Medivac. -
Wednesday, April 21st 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Fisheries News.
Headlines:
Argentina opens squid fishery north of parallel 44°S; Galicia cautions about European alliances; Most Chilean salmon farms ignore labour regulations; Steady growth of fish consumption in Spain; EU reaches new fishery agreement with Madagascar; Galicia builds aquaculture centre in Namibia. -
Wednesday, April 21st 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Viarsa 1 Officers Launch New Bid to Leave Australia.
Five fishermen from the alleged pirate vessel Viarsa 1 have been given 48 hours to prove why they should be given their passports back in a new bid by the detained men to leave Australia.
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Wednesday, April 21st 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur and EU closer to the October target.
Mercosur and European Union representatives after two days of negotiations in Buenos Aires are closer to their objective and the signing of a free trade agreement next October has once again become feasible.
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Wednesday, April 21st 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Warrant issued for former Argentine president.
A Buenos Aires judge on Tuesday ordered the extradition of Carlos Menem, Argentina's flamboyant former president, from Chile after Mr Menem failed to appear in court.
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Tuesday, April 20th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
A true Islander dies in the Falklands.
Falklands' legend, Harold Theodore Rowlands C.B.E. who bestowed ?The Freedom of the Falklands' and an unexpected big kiss on the cheek of, ?the incomparable Mrs. Margaret Thatcher' in 1983 has died suddenly, aged 72.
