Mercosur

• Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Spain supports Argentine debt exchange program.

  Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ended Wednesday his first official visit to Argentina pledging to help the country fully recover from its economic crisis and create a better business climate for Spanish companies.

• Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  World tourism industry expanded 10% in 2004

  World tourism expanded 10% in 2004, involving 760 million international visits, revealed Francesco Frangialli during the opening of the XXV International Tourism Fair, Fitur 2005 in Madrid, Spain.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina fails to broach British wine market.

  While the United Kingdom is the main destination for Argentine wines, these only account for 1.6% of the whole UK market, July Halstead, of Wine Intelligence, told the Herald.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Barbados announces a Republic Plan.

  The prime minister of Barbados has announced plans to make the Caribbean island a republic, replacing the Queen of England as the official head of state with a locally elected president.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil will lead a road show in Davos.

  More than 2,000 business and political leaders from around the globe are arriving in the Swiss mountain resort Davos for the annual World Economic Forum.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Australia's South Seas fisheries “expansionist attitude”

  Uruguay's head of the Fisheries Department Captain Yamandu Flangini warned about the “expansionist attitudes” behind developed countries maritime policies which could lead to serious limiting of fisheries activities and recalled that two Uruguayan longliners have already suffered the consequences of this initiative.

• Monday, January 24th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Arab UN Security Council permanent member suggests Brazil.

  Brazil suggested that an Arab country be incorporated to the United Nations Security Council as a permanent member.

• Monday, January 24th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  INIDEP assesses hake biomass in San Jorge Gulf; Commercial southern hake farming in 2008.

• Monday, January 24th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  EU-Mercosur talks resume next April.

  Mercosur and European Union representatives will resume next April in Asunción, Paraguay, the bogged free trade negotiations, reported last Friday the Paraguayan Foreign Affairs Ministry.

• Monday, January 24th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Spanish president visits Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

  Spanish president Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero began Sunday an official visit to the Southern Cone, --the first since taking office--, which will take him to Brazil, Argentina and Chile.