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• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Santiago will host world tourism summit

  Santiago de Chile will be hosting the XLIII Meeting of the World Tourism Organization, OMT, for the Americas scheduled May 24/26 in the framework of the V Chilean Tourism Summit it was officially announced Monday by Tourism Office officials.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas in EU Constitution, “unfortunately affect us”

  Argentine Defence minister Jose Pampuro said Monday that Argentina “has growing international support” for its Falkland Islands sovereignty claim although admitting that the fact that the archipelago has been included as a British Overseas Territory in the European Constitutional Treaty, “unfortunately affects us”.

• Saturday, April 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico City's Mayor king of the political arena

  Mexico City's Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hailed President Vicente Fox' decision to shelve criminal charges against him, thus clearing the way for the most popular candidate to run in next year's presidential election

• Saturday, April 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  EU candidate favourite for WTO post

  Paul Lamy from the European Union and Ambassador Carlos Perez del Castillo from Uruguay are the two candidates left for the post of Secretary General of the World Trade Organization following the second round of consultations which eliminated Mauritius Island Foreign Affairs Minister Jaya Cuttaree.

• Saturday, April 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Insulza, consensus candidate for OAS

  Chile's candidate emerged Friday as the favourite for the Organization of American States Secretary General post after Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez in a surprise move withdrew his bid.

• Saturday, April 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  S. American leftist governments' common agenda

  High-ranking officials of the leftist governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay met Friday in Montevideo and forged “a common agenda” for southern South America.

• Friday, April 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Castro joins Chavez at oil co. opening

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez moved Thursday to augment his nation's already close political and economic ties with Cuba during an official visit to the Communist-ruled Island.

• Friday, April 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  US Secretary of State arrive to Chile

  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that it is the historic duty of democrats ''to tell the world that tyranny is a crime of man, not a fact of nature.''

• Friday, April 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina's protest receives no EU presidency response

  The current Luxembourg presidency of the European Union will make “no statements” regarding the Argentine protest motivated in the inclusion of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich islands in the European Constitution as British Overseas Territories, because EU' position in the matter “has not changed”, according to European diplomatic sources.

• Thursday, April 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS nomination: increasing Chilean optimism.

  Chilean Foreign Secretary Ignacio Walker said Wednesday in Santiago that “it's not in our mind to lift or drop candidacies” and what “we aspire is hemispheric consensus for Jose Miguel Insulza” in his bid to become Secretary General of the Organization of American States, OAS.