MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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Sunday, April 17th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
G7 urges Argentina to re-negotiate debt
“Following the debt exchange, Argentina needs to address the remaining defaulted debt, in line with the lending-into-arrears policy of the IMF, and undertake structural reforms to ensure sustainable growth,” the G7 said in a statement signed by its financial officials after a meeting in Washington.
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Sunday, April 17th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Breaking News from Pta. Arenas.
Headlines:
Chilean icebreaker ends Antarctic season; Dollar exchange activity returning to normal; Magallanes hospital among the top 15; Punta Arenas US sister city; Patagonia South-South integration. -
Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
EU candidate closer to becoming WTO head
Former European Union Trade Commissar Pascal Lamy received this week the most support in the first round of consultations for a new head of the World Trade Organization, according to officials in Geneva.
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Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
US open to a “consensus candidate” for OAS post
United States is considering “all alternatives” for the election of the Organization of American States next Secretary General and doesn't discard supporting a consensus candidate, said Friday US Under Secretary for Hemispheric Affairs Roger Noriega.
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Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
“Intelligent interaction” instead of Washington consensus
Surging raw material prices, better trade figures, stronger currencies and the lessons from the past seem to have imposed a sober mood in the Inter American Development Bank, IDB annual Assembly held this week in Okinawa, Japan.
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Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Sea freight rates almost double in twelve months
Sea freight costs leaving Chile have increased 90,5% in the last twelve months according to the Index of Sea Export Freights, IFNE which is calculated by the Manufacturing and Services Export Association of Chile.
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Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Aero2000-Lan begins flying June “or even before”
Lan Chile will begin operations in Argentina next June through Aero2000-Lan absorbing a thousand workers from two bankrupt Argentine airlines, was announced in Buenos Aires.
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Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Ecuador President Calls State of Emergency
Facing growing street protests demanding his ouster, President Lucio Gutierrez declared a state of emergency Friday night in the capital and dissolved the Supreme Court in an effort to resolve an escalating political crisis.
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Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chile receives first F-16 fighter bomber
Chilean Defence officials participated in Fort Worth, Texas, of the roll-out ceremony for the first of ten F-16 fighter bombers built by Lockheed-Martin and to be incorporated to the Chilean Air Force.
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Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner complains about IMF incompetence
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner called in Germany for a “restructuring” of multilateral credit organizations and argued that the Argentine debt swap was successful because it left out the IMF and acted opposite to Fund's recommendations.
