MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 2004
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Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine: Fisheries News.
Headlines:
Argentine ban on Patagonian toothfish catch; Sub-Patagonian squid stock data to be released in 30 days; USD 565 million of fish and shellfish in exports registered up to August. -
Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Flights Ball In Argentine Court, Says Falklands Governor.
If Argentina wants to discuss the subject of flights between the South American continent and the Falklands, then they should first respond to the British proposals on the table said Falkland Islands Governor, Howard Pearce, speaking in Stanley, on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
“New Polar”: New Technology
Efficiency and cost saving, achieved by the use of state-of-the art technology distinguish the New Polar, latest addition to the Falkland Islands fishing fleet. Vessel owners, Polar Limited hosted a reception on board the recently Falkland flagged vessel on Friday evening.
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Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Pension increase for Malvinas veterans.
The Argentine government decided this week to increase Malvinas war veterans' pension from the equivalent of 133 to 309 US dollars.
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Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Leeds Castle rededicates Ardent Antelope cross.
HMS Leeds Castle, in one of her last acts before departing the Falkland Islands, rededicated the Ardent-Antelope Cross on a typically blustery September day.
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Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Costa Rica demands OAS Secretary General resignation.
Costa Rican President Abel Pacheco called Monday for the resignation of Organization of American States Secretary General Miguel Angel Rodriguez following strong allegations he was involved in corrupt practices in his homeland.
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Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Peron's plans to dominate South America.
A retired Brazilian diplomat who during the forties was a spy in Argentina claims that former Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron was planning to annex several neighbouring countries if the Nazis had won the Second World War, reports the Brazilian magazine “Veja” in its latest edition.
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Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Bielsa: “a blessing Argentina is not a US priority”
Argentine Foreign Affairs Secretary Rafael Bielsa candidly admitted that Argentina does not figure among United States priorities, which he described as “a blessing”, because when the country had Washington's attention in the nineties the administrations “overacted that priority” to the extreme of ending in the December 2001 crisis.
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Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Chile attempts to soothe Argentina.
In the midst of the latest Chilean-Argentine diplomatic incident involving the incoming Chilean Foreign Affairs minister, the Chilean government revealed that three servicemen caught red-handed spying when last year they broke into the Argentine consulate in Punta Arenas had been forced to retire.
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Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay expects 70,000 cruise visitors.
Next November 3 with the arrival in the Atlantic resort of Punta del Este of “Saga Pearl” which the following day will call in Montevideo, the cruise season officially begins in Uruguay.
