MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 9th 2009
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Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:25 UTC
It’s official: Cuba thanks sanctions’ revoke but says No to OAS
Cuba has formally rejected re-joining the Organization of American States, days after the group revoked Cuba's expulsion from the OAS nearly 50 years ago. Cuba's official media published a government statement Monday saying Cuba's values are incompatible with what it described as the group's neo-liberal values of capitalism and self-promotion.
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Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 05:18 UTC
Falklands call for Argentine Co-operation
The Falklands Islands Government has again called on Argentina to join with them in maintaining good co-operative relations and welcomed the agreement for the forthcoming Argentine relatives’ pilgrimage to inaugurate the Falklands cemetery Darwin where their 1982 war dead are buried. The Islanders also respect the need for Argentine veterans of the war to visit the battlefields where they fought.
