Joint press statement of the Twenty-fifth meeting.
Given the scattered nature of the Falkland Islands archipelago, inter island shipping has always been a matter of the highest importance to farmers and so there was a capacity turn out for the first of Tuesday's ?Farmers Week' meetings.
On Tuesday morning, Mr. Howard Pearce, the Governor of the Falkland Islands, chose the platform of a meeting organized for farmers by the Falkland Islands Rural Business Association to issue a firm assurance that any attempts that might be made by Argentina to discuss Falkland Islands sovereignty with the British Government would be refused, unless they occurred with the consent of the islanders. The British Government is going to be very robust on this, he said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Operations Manager, John Ferguson, treated Falkland Islands farmers in Stanley for the Annual ?Farmers Week' to an upbeat presentation on the operation of the Sand Bay Abattoir, during the 2003-4 austral summer season.
Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos expressed satisfaction this Monday with a pledge from British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw that the nuclear submarine HMS Tireless will leave Gibraltar in a couple of days.
Monday 12th July marked the beginning of Farmers' Week in the Falkland Islands.
Chile figures ninth in the world ranking of countries best qualified for foreign invertors according to the US based consultants A. T. Kearney
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is Mercosur's main leader, said Argentine former president Eduardo Duhalde who currently is president of Mercosur's Council of Permanent Representatives.
Chilean investments overseas in the first half of 2004 reached the 1998 half year mark considered one of the country's record totaling 997 million US dollars, 238% increase over 2003.
A United States company is offering tourist packages in Argentina that combine plastic surgery with leisure activities such as a seven-day excursion that includes silicone breast implants and tango, reported the Buenos Aires press last Sunday.