MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for July 1st 2006
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Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands' 25 years fishing permits “a provocation”
The granting of fishing permits of up to 25 years is a provocation inviting Buenos Aires to also adopt drastic measures, said Carlos Ortiz de Rozas, who was ambassador to the United Kingdom as the two countries went to war in 1982 over the Falkland Islands, writes Guillermo Haskel in The Buenos Aires Herald.
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Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Morales back steps and hopes to travel to the US
Bolivian President Evo Morales hopes to travel to Washington to ask Congress to extend trade preferences set to expire at the end of the year, a government official said in La Paz.
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Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina Falklands' policy cools defence relations with UK
The growing strain between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands advanced further when the Defence Ministry announced this week the suspension, until next October, of several United Kingdom/Argentina defense and military confidence building bilateral events.
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Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Foreign Secretary Beckett visits Brazil
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett will visit Brazil between July 2 and 4 at the invitation of Foreign Affairs Minister Celso Amorim. This will be Ms Beckett first bilateral visit since she was appointed Foreign Secretary two months ago.
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Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Pekerman blamed for Argentine defeat.
The English press all headlined the extraordinary substitutions made by Argentine coach Jose Pekerman, which they maintain led to Argentina's exit from the 2006 World Cup.
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Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC
English happy with Argentine referee.
Argentine referee Horacio Elizondo and his assistants, Dario Garcia and Rodolfo Otero, generally officiated well at the very heated game between England and Portugal in the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
