MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 2006
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Thursday, March 9th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
FAM controversy in Brazil delays livestock elimination
Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture began this week sacrificing livestock in the south of the country where the recurrence of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease was reported.
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Thursday, March 9th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur/EU to resume trade negotiations in Brussels
Mercosur and European Union representatives will again sit at the negotiation table at the end of the month, this time in Belgium, to try and advance the stalled association and trade talks between the two blocks.
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Wednesday, March 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Rockhopper completes seismic and mapping surveys
Rockhopper Exploration which holds hydrocarbons exploration and production licences offshore the Falkland Islands completed in mid February seismic and electro magnetic imaging surveys over their acreage.
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Wednesday, March 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Endurance to Argentina for urgent repairs
“There are no political overtones in this at all, it's just a necessary repair job that has to be done as quickly as possible, which means going to the nearest available dry dock of a size to take Endurance. She's a big ship and there aren't that many big dry docks around the South Atlantic.”
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Wednesday, March 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil President Lula da Silva welcomed by Queen Elizabeth II.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received a lavish welcome from Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, but he has more than pomp and ceremony planned for his three-day state visit to Britain.
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Wednesday, March 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
“Strategic alliance” with Argentina, Chile's top priority
Consolidating relations with Latinamerica and “most particularly” with Argentina, plus Peru and Bolivia are foreign relations “top priorities” of the incoming administration of elected Chilean president Michelle Bachelet.
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Wednesday, March 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Malvinas veterans suicide rate “14 times higher”
The suicide rate among Falklands/Malvinas war veterans is fourteen times the Argentine population average claim veterans' associations. At least 350 and possibly 454, veterans have committed suicide since the end of the war in June 1982, a figure higher than the number actually killed in combat or sunk with the cruiser “General Belgrano”.
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Wednesday, March 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay's wool and skin sales top 93 million US dollars
Uruguayan wool, sheep skin and live sheep exports from the current 05/06 clip totalled 93 million US dollars by the end of February, reported the Uruguayan Wool Secretariat.
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Wednesday, March 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
“Mad cow”: 10 years after EU lifts ban on British beef
A worldwide ban on British beef exports has been lifted by the European Union, ten years after it was introduced to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, BSE.
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Wednesday, March 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
India/Chile sign preferential trade agreement
India and Chile on Wednesday signed in New Delhi a Preferential Trade Agreement as part of initiatives to increase trade and investment between the two countries.
