The Punta Arenas Production and Commerce Confederation (CPC) described the latest report on jobs and unemployment in Magallanes Region as worrisome.
Representatives from United States and Brazil revealed that they were exploring ways to re-launch the stalled talks for the creation of a Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA.
Chile's government owned oil company, Enap, is preparing tender conditions for drilling an exploratory well in Lake Mercedes basin, Tierra del Fuego, reports Punta Arenas press.
The European Union decided this week to temporarily lift all diplomatic sanctions imposed on Cuba since June 2003 and establish a constructive dialogue with Havana authorities, announced Luxemburg's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean Asselborn.
In their first meeting of 2005, held on Thursday 27 January, the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands (ExCo) agreed that a budget of £150,000 should be set aside to fund celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Islands' liberation from Argentina in 1982.
At its meeting of January 27th, 2005, the Falkland Islands Executive Council considered a report on importation and quarantine procedures produced by New Zealand consultants, Biosecurity Ltd, which was forwarded to them, for information, after preliminary consideration by the FIG Agricultural Advisory Committee in December last year and reported on by Mercopress at the time.