MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2004
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Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
'The Patagonian toothfish needs protection'
Environmentalists urged fishing nations to do more to protect the rare Patagonian toothfish, dubbed the “white gold” of the sea which is being driven to extinction by rampant poaching.
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Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Cardiff concludes S. Atlantic deployment.
HMS Cardiff returns from South Atlantic deployment next Friday (22/10) having had a West African school named after her. Sierra Leone president Ahmad Kabbah was so impressed with building work carried out at a Freetown school by 100 HMS Cardiff sailors he renamed the institution in their honour.
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Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean Navy delegation in Ushuaia celebration.
A delegation of Chilean naval authorities travelled last October 12 to Ushuaia, Argentina, specially invited by their Argentine Navy counterparts to participate in the city's 120th anniversary.
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Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Executive order puts Lan Peru back in the air.
Lan Peru resumed domestic and international flights this Friday afternoon following an emergency executive order signed last night by Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo leaving without effect a Court ruling that suspended the company's operations for five days beginning Friday.
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Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Judge upholds Argentine government in hake dispute.
An Argentine Federal Court Judge from Rawson, José Eduardo Pinsker turned down legal appeals which would have allowed 11 vessels belonging to five companies to continue catching common hake (Merluccius hubbsi).
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Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Former OAS chief in Costa Rican Court
Former Organization of American States, OAS, Secretary General Miguel Angel Rodríguez was handcuffed and carried away on arriving this Friday to San Jose airport in Costa Rica where he must respond to alleged claims of bribery which abruptly cut short his recent naming in OAS.
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Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina replaces Chile in UN Security Council.
Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania won this week seats as non permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
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Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
“Penguin News” Voice of the Falklands for 25 years.
The first copies of Penguin News went on sale twenty five years ago this month.
Islander Graham Bound sensed a gap in the market and decided a new Falkland Islands newspaper was needed. Penguin News was created and has, save for a few rare silences, been with us ever since.
October 3, 1979 saw the publication of the first issue of this paper. -
Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Gibraltar “aspirations and interests” included in UN text.
In its session this week the United Nations Fourth Committee adopted without a vote the decision calling for a solution on Gibraltar but changing the text for the first time in years.
It followed Spanish president Jose Rodriguez Zapatero's statement last month when he said that Madrid wanted to hear Gibraltar's voice. -
Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
“Patagonia Declaration” stresses sustainable tourism.
The formal Third Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Tourism Ministers Meeting which convened officials and delegates from 18 of 22 APEC member countries to Punta Arenas closed early afternoon last Thursday with the “Patagonia Declaration”.
