MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 2005
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Thursday, March 10th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
More delays on Falklands' Fisheries Bill.
THERE have been further delays to the Falklands' proposed new fisheries bill after officials at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) raised fresh queries about some of its provisions. The bill is already a year overdue and now in its fifth draft.
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Thursday, March 10th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina arrests jigger allegedly poaching.
Argentine Navy corvette ARA Drummond arrested a Korean jigger last March 9 allegedly poaching in Argentina's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), some 350 kilometers (190 nautical miles) east of the Port of San Julián, Santa Cruz province.
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
New Uruguayan administration committed to combat IUU fishing.
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).
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
FAO debates sustainable and responsible fishing.
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.
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Rammell in two days visit to Cuba
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.
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Human Rights: Cuba expects Latinamerican solidarity
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.
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivia: waiting for Morales move
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.
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Global Petroleum joins London market's oil and gas bonanza
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.
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Fisheries failing to safeguard seabirds
Birdlife International has recently published a report ranking organisations on their environmental performance.
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Wednesday, March 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands Veterans Get Freedom of Gosport.
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.
