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Stories for June 18th 2006

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Peruvian elected president invited to Chile this week

  Peruvian elected president Alan Garcia will be visiting Chile next Thursday specially invited by his counterpart Michelle Bachelet.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine government taking back airports

  The Argentine government has given a first long stride to recover control over the country's 32 main airports which for the last eight years have been under private administration, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, AA2000, belonging to businessman Eduardo Eurnekian.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  President Bachelet first 100 days in office

  Chilean president Michelle Bachelet celebrates Sunday her first 100 days in office and can feel satisfied since most of the 36 measures she promised for this period have been accomplished, according to the Chilean press.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  HMS Liverpool en route to Brazil and Portsmouth

  On the final phase of her six and a half month South Atlantic Patrol Task deployment HMS Liverpool spent a long weekend in Montevideo, Uruguay before heading north.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Appointed Falklands' governor on familiarization visit

  The appointed governor of the Falkland Islands Alan Huckle spent a week in the Islands for what was described as a familiarization visit.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela to take over “inactive” mines

  Venezuela plans to take over all inactive mining areas to form new joint ventures with a state majority stake and state-backed small mining groups foreseen under a mine law reform, announced Heavy Industries and Mining Minister Víctor Alvarez.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Anti-whaling alliance winning this year's conference

  Japan's attempt to revive commercial whaling looks dead for another year after the country lost a third crucial vote at an international meeting. Conservationists and anti-whaling nations had feared the pro-whaling camp led by Japan, Norway and Iceland might have got over the line at this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Caribbean island of St Kitts.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivia's ambitious plan to reduce poverty

  Bolivia announced a massive plan involving 12 billion US dollars to reduce poverty and creating jobs.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela and pulp mills conflict, “no risk for Mercosur”

  Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim emphasized Sunday that Venezuela's membership and the current pulp mills dispute between Argentina and Uruguay pose no threat or risk to Mercosur.