MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for January 2005
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil's foreign trade policy confronts ministers
Brazilian Trade and Development Minister Luiz Fenando Furlan strong criticism of the country's current financial, monetary and Mercosur policies were openly applauded by Brazilian industry and exporters but caused great irritation inside President Lula da Silva administration.
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Venezuela & Colombia suspends bilateral relations
President Hugo Chavez on Friday demanded that Colombia apologize for violating Venezuela's sovereignty and announced that until Bogota makes amends all agreements and bilateral affairs will be frozen.
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina seeks to ease creditor concerns
Argentina's government has jumped to the defence of a so-called “most-favoured-creditor” clause in its $100bn debt offer after mounting concern that it contained an important loophole.
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
Headlines:
Passage by paddle power; Sign up for the Falklands' first marathon; Naval escort as Ellen's trimaran passes through; Flood on BAS slip; New face at St Mary's; Tsunami appeal grows; Murrell meeting; Cruise ships this week; Fire inquiry: man ?rebailed'. -
Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
“Mercosur is more than a market agreement”
Uruguay's President-elect Tabaré Vázquez yesterday met with President Néstor Kirchner in Government House, on his first trip abroad since he won office in the October 31 election.
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Chile, Panama: free trade talks.
Panama and Chile agreed Thursday to restart free trade negotiations that were set aside under former President Mireya Moscoso.
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Cause of flight refusal is ?administrative'
THE Acting Governor says that Argentina refused a private aircraft permission to fly to the Falklands, not due to its destination but because of an “administrative problem.”
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
South Atlantic rendezvous for Ellen
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Gloucester has met up with round the world sailor Ellen MacArthur in the stormy South Atlantic west of the Falklands.
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
EU lifts north Argentina FAM ban
Experts from the European Union supported ending bovine meat imports restrictions from four Argentine northern provinces which have been effective since early 2003 to avoid the spread of foot and mouth disease.
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina launches defaulted debt package.
Argentina officially presented Wednesday in Buenos Aires its defaulted debt new package offer and stated that if it manages a 50% acceptance from creditors, “we will have restructured two thirds of the country's total debt” and the “default process will have concluded”.
