Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, October 28th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Portillo: 21-years on positions are clear.

  Michael Portillo MP said Monday night that he thinks both the United Kingdom and Argentine positions are clear regarding the Falkland Islands and have not changed that he does not foresee that they will change and that the best thing is to leave them (sovereignty negotiations) to one side and look for ways to expand upon links between the two countries.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Seven marathon challenge hit by blizzards.

  Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been forced to alter his seven marathons on seven continents challenge after blizzards and engine trouble scuppered his Antarctic start.

• Monday, October 27th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Regional News from Pta. Arenas.

  Headlines:
  Relief among Magallanes sheep farmers; Skorpios inaugurates new jetty in Puerto Natales; Argentina and Chile eliminate migratory red tape; Airline project delayed; Medicine School in Magallanes; Cheaper flights from Río Gallegos.

• Monday, October 27th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar election November 27

  Gibraltar will be going to the polls on November 27th. The dissolution of the House of Assembly by Governor Sir Francis Richards “at the Chief Minister's request” was the starting gun that sets the race for the biggest prize in local politics: 6 Convent Place.
  Nomination papers must be delivered at the House of Assembly not later than noon on Thursday November 6 2003.

• Monday, October 27th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  HMS Endurance: Furthest South.

  Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Endurance is about to venture further south than ever before.

• Sunday, October 26th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  South Atlantic cooperation main topic in ABC

  Virtually unnoticed by the Argentine press the Argentine British Conference, Buenos Aires 2003 edition, took off Saturday morning in the Argentine Council for International Relations, CARI, with former British Defence Secretary Michael Portillo giving participating in the opening conference, “Developments since the last ABC in 2000”.

• Thursday, October 23rd 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Fisheries News

  Brazil seeks investors in South Korea; Chile claims Spain is over catching swordfish; Koreans, world's main consumers of seafood; Online auctions in Galicia by 2005.

• Wednesday, October 22nd 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  “Mare Australis” in Punta Arenas.

  Chilean vessel “Mare Australis” with 180 passengers from 13 different countries called in Punta Arenas last Saturday for the second cruise of the season and late in the evening with a similar number of tourists left for the weekly tour of the region.

• Wednesday, October 22nd 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  New “stealth” US fisheries research for Alaska; Koreans now biggest consumers of seafood worldwide; Brazil: Government rectifies foreign vessels chartering decree; Chile: Rare environmental emergency in fishing plant.

• Tuesday, October 21st 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Memorial and demining in UK-Argentine agenda.

  In the framework of the Argentine-British high level regular talks initiated in 2002, a high ranking Foreign Office official met this Monday in Buenos Aires with the Argentine Foreign Affairs Deputy Secretary Jorge Taiana.