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Stories for January 2005

• Tuesday, January 4th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina recovers international reserves

  During 2004 the Argentine Central Bank managed to increase its international reserves 5,528 billion US dollars totalling 19,646 billion US dollars, equivalent to the mid 2001 level a few weeks before the financial crisis.

• Tuesday, January 4th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Many obstacles ahead for resumption of FTAA talks

  This month negotiations for the creation of a Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, encompassing the 34 countries of the hemisphere (with the exception of Cuba) should have successfully finalized but strong objections from United States and Mercosur cut the dialogue short last April.

• Tuesday, January 4th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Bielsa president of UN Security Council.

  Argentina's Foreign Secretary Rafael Bielsa will be presiding the United Nations Security Council during January when several critical international situations will be addressed including elections in Palestine (01/9) and Iraq (01/30), plus the taking office of President George Bush for a second mandate (01/20).

• Tuesday, January 4th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  UN-backed expedition to sail to Antarctica to gauge impact of global warning.

  In a United Nations-backed project, a two-masted ship will set sail this month from the tip of South America for Antarctica to witness first-hand the impacts of global warming and environmental change on the world's most southerly continent.

• Monday, January 3rd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Buenos Aires club fire first political victim.

  The nightclub trap fire that killed more than 180 people in Argentina last week reached the political system with the resignation of Buenos Aires City Justice and Urban Secretary Juan Carlos Lopez.

• Monday, January 3rd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Next of kin planning Memorial visit in “coming days”

  Relatives from the Argentine servicemen killed in the 1982 Malvinas war are planning to travel to the Falkland Islands in the “coming days” to check the cenotaph assembled in the Darwin Cemetery which was finished April 2004 but still has to be inaugurated reported Sunday in Buenos Aires the Argentine news agency DYN.

• Monday, January 3rd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine calls for “sovereignty talks' resumption”

  The Argentine government ratified the country's “imprescriptible sovereignty rights” over the Falklands/Malvinas and requested the British government “resumes bilateral negotiations”, to find as soon as possible a solution to the conflict.

• Monday, January 3rd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Lonely Planet brings out Guide to Falklands and South Georgia.

  The Falkland Islands and South Georgia are the focus of a new travel guide by the world's leading independent travel publisher.

• Sunday, January 2nd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina: Grief mixed with fury.

  Relatives of the 177 people who died in a fire that broke out on Thursday night in a Buenos Aires rock club yesterday started burying their bodies as some 3,000 demonstrators gathered in front of the local City Hall blaming Mayor Aníbal Ibarra for Argentina's worst non natural disaster ever

• Sunday, January 2nd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Devastation darkens world's New Year.

  Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator, said the toll “may be approaching 150,000” as the United States increased its aid pledge tenfold to 350 million dollars.