A union leader from the Uruguayan fishing industry Daniel Montiel took office last March 2 as the new Director of the country's National Directorate of Aquatic Resources (DINARA).
Fisheries management problems, potential contributions for protected marine areas leading to sustainable fishing and responsible resumption of fishing efforts in Southeast Asian tsunami-affected countries are among the main issues to be debated this week by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of United Nations (FAO) Committee on Fisheries.
Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell is currently on a two days visit to Cuba, the first official from a European nation to go to the island since Brussels imposed diplomatic sanctions on Fidel Castro' regime almost two years ago.
Cuba hopes no Latinamerican country will support or co-sponsor this year any draft resolution promoted by the United States before the United Nations Geneva Human Rights Commission, (HRC) targeted against Fidel Castro's regime.
Bolivian president Carlos Mesa was confirmed by Congress Tuesday night following the signing of a governance agreement with two of the country's main political parties which supposedly will grant the administration a working majority hopefully ending weeks of political turmoil and street blockades that were strangling the economy.
The investment boom in oil and gas exploration companies continued this week with a Texan business raising £25m in London to fund projects in Iraq and Syria and an Australian company with interests in the Falkland Islands listing on London City's junior market, reports the British press.
Birdlife International has recently published a report ranking organisations on their environmental performance.
Veterans of the Falklands War have been honoured with the Freedom of the Borough of Gosport, the town on the western side of Portsmouth harbour where so many of the 1982 Falklands Task Force ships were based.