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Stories for May 2nd 2005

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Ecuador's govt gets support from OAS

  The OAS will maintain diplomatic relations with the new government of Ecuador, headed by Alfredo Palacio, the former vice president whom the nation's Congress named to replace President Lucio Gutierrez after it summarily removed the latter from office on April 20

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  World's workers rally on May Day.

  Millions of workers from Tokyo to Havana and across Europe took to the streets Sunday in May Day rallies and marches to demand improved conditions and protest government policies.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Petrobras to double gas pipeline capacity

  State-owned petroleum giant Petrobras is to begin work this year on seven new pipelines that will more than double its capacity to transport natural gas within Brazil, O Globo daily reported Monday.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Bielsa: Mercosur ready to retake FTAA talks

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Rafael Bielsa denied Monday that the 34 hemispheric countries project for a Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, is “dead”.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Majority of Venezuelans don't believe in the “Socialist way”

  A majority of Venezuelans support the performance of President Hugo Chavez administration, according to the latest opinion poll from Datanalisis published Monday in Caracas main dailies.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS: unity but with several conditions

  Jose Miguel Insulza the newly elected Secretary General of the Organization of American States, OAS, underscored in his acceptance speech that in his new post he will defend the interests of all country members.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Santiago will host world tourism summit

  Santiago de Chile will be hosting the XLIII Meeting of the World Tourism Organization, OMT, for the Americas scheduled May 24/26 in the framework of the V Chilean Tourism Summit it was officially announced Monday by Tourism Office officials.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas in EU Constitution, “unfortunately affect us”

  Argentine Defence minister Jose Pampuro said Monday that Argentina “has growing international support” for its Falkland Islands sovereignty claim although admitting that the fact that the archipelago has been included as a British Overseas Territory in the European Constitutional Treaty, “unfortunately affects us”.