MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 2004
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Thursday, June 10th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
IMF insists Argentina agrees with creditors.
The International Monetary Fund new Managing Director Rodrigo Rato said that the accomplishment of an agreement with all creditors is one of the “very important” steps the Argentine authorities have to complete to leave behind the economic crisis and have Argentina completely integrated into international financial markets.
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Thursday, June 10th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Bomb explodes outside bank in Chilean capital.
The group calling itself “Julio Guerra, Southern Operation” took responsibility for the blast in a phone call to Santiago's Bio Bio radio station.
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Thursday, June 10th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands air link deal set to irk UK.
In a move bound to rouse already deteriorating diplomatic relations with the UK, Argentina has given permission for a national airline to begin direct flights to the Falkland Islands.
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Wednesday, June 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
£80m Defence Estates Contract in Falklands & Ascension Island.
Interserve, the British support services group announced June 8 it has won an £80 million contract with the Defence Estates agency to service and maintain the Ministry of Defence operations on the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island.
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Wednesday, June 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Recall referendum in Venezuela August 15.
The recall referendum to cut Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez constitutional mandate will take place next August 15, announced this Tuesday evening in Caracas Ezequiel Zamora, vice-president of the National Electoral Council, CNE.
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Wednesday, June 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguayan meat exports up 70%
Uruguayan beef exports during the first five months of 2004 increased 70% compared to the same period a year before.
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Wednesday, June 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
G8 exam for new Argentine offer to bondholders.
The Group of seven highly industrialized countries plus Russia, G-8, which are holding a two days summit in Georgia, United States, have included in their agenda the latest Argentine offer to sovereign bondholders defaulted since December 2001.
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Wednesday, June 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
November 2005, next Summit of the Americas.
Argentina's Minister of Foreign Affairs Rafael Bielsa announced in Quito, Ecuador that the Fourth Summit of the Americas will be held during the first week of November of 2005 in Buenos Aires.
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Wednesday, June 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Greenspan anticipates oil-spurred higher interest rates.
United States Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said this Tuesday he was concerned with a general rise in US consumer prices if oil prices continue to soar, and consequently did not exclude a higher than expected rise in interest rates.
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Wednesday, June 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
OAS resolution fully supports Argentine claims.
The 34th general assembly of the Organization of American States, OAS approved this Tuesday by acclamation a resolution calling on Argentina and Great Britain to resume, “without delay” Falklands/Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich islands sovereignty negotiations, which were interrupted in 1982 when the armed conflict in the South Atlantic.
