MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 2005
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Sunday, November 6th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Mexico to join Mercosur “first half of 2006”
Mexico will begin the Mercosur incorporation process during the first half of 2006 announced Mexican president Vicente Fox during his stay in Mar del Plata, Argentina for the IV Americas Summit.
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Sunday, November 6th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina satisfied with “Mercosur' consolidation”
Argentina's cabinet chief Alberto Fernandez bluntly denied that the IV Americas Summit had turned into a “failure” for Argentina and expressed satisfaction because “Mercosur came out much consolidated” following the two days meeting of 34 leaders from the hemisphere including US President George Bush.
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Sunday, November 6th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Bush: “we must convince Lula of FTAA benefits”
United States President George W. Bush currently visiting Brazil admitted Sunday he must work harder to convince President Lula da Silva of the benefits of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, (FTAA) the big stumbling block in Friday/Saturday's IV Americas Summit.
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Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Corruption probe encroaching on Lula's administration
Brazilian opposition leaders announced that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be included in the months-long corruption probe, following revelations that money diverted from a government managed bank funded a network of illegal payments by the ruling Workers Party, PT.
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Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Uruguay steps up FAM controls in Brazilian border
Uruguay stepped up border sanitary controls in anticipation of “unpleasant” surprises following at least fourteen outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in neighbouring Brazil.
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Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
A Swiss sketch on Falklanders' fears
“Kelpers live physically and geographically in a continent but psychologically and mentally in another, in a mythical Great Britain which probably no longer corresponds with reality”, writes Swiss journalist Jean Bernard Vuilleme in his recently published short book “Notes on Malvinas”.
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Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Davidoff's South Georgia claim definitively closed
An Argentine court closed an old chapter of the South Atlantic conflict when it rejected a claim against the United Kingdom from a businessman who was forcibly evicted from South Georgia in 1982 following the flying of an Argentine flag, an episode that is blamed for the precipitation of the armed confrontation, reports the Buenos Aires press.
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Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Mexico calls on Mercosur to stop blocking FTAA
Rioting in the streets of Mar del Plata and ongoing disputes among leaders over free trade and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, FTAA, marked the first of the two days IV Summit of the Americas.
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Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Bush praises Kirchner's record in a “candid” interview
President George W. Bush said on Friday after meeting with host president Nestor Kirchner that the excellent record of the Argentine economy “is such now that he can take his case to the IMF with a much stronger hand”.
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Friday, November 4th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
Kiwi kayakers are first around South Georgia;
Serviceman killed in road accident; Veterans to visit;
News in Brief:
Policemen suspended; Beauchene shop closing; Multanovskiy tomorrow.
