Uruguay

• Tuesday, September 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay's fisheries first half 2007 exports totaled 61.000 tons

  Uruguayan fisheries exports reached 105 million US dollars in the first half of this year, which represents a 13% increase over the same period a year ago according to Daniel Montiel, head of the Uruguay's Aquatic Resources Office, Dinara.

• Sunday, September 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine-Uruguay row heats up

  Hundreds of Argentine environmentalists crossed into Uruguay Sunday to protest a huge wood pulp plant near the border they say will pollute a river that feeds Argentine farms and tourist sites.

• Thursday, August 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina relations fall to bottom rock level

  

  To the backdrop of several dozen Argentine protesters in a flotilla of boats and dinghies, Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez on Wednesday inaugurated storage facilities and improved docks in a port serving a controversial new pulp mill built in Uruguay by Finnish pulp producer Botnia.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Illex squid season in Uruguay Argentina CFZ ends August 31

  The Illex squid season in the Uruguay/Argentina Common Fisheries Zone, CFZ, ends next August 31st, according to a release from the Maritime Front Joint Technical committee.

• Friday, August 17th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Botnia plant workers on strike demand better safety conditions

  

  Workers of the Botnia pulp mill in Uruguay voted Friday to continue the work stoppage begun Thursday, until next Monday alleging “insufficient guarantees”. This week several workers were intoxicated with sulphur sodium during trials at the plant, which is in the heart of an international controversy with Argentina.

• Friday, August 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  FAO signs agreement to improve fisheries management in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay and FAO, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, signed last July an agreement for the implementation of a three years fisheries management project which hopefully will make Uruguay's fishing industry more efficient and with greater technical emphasis.

• Friday, August 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Patrick Mullee new British ambassador to Uruguay

  Patrick Mullee has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to Uruguay in succession to Dr Hugh Salvesen, who will be leaving the Diplomatic Service.

• Wednesday, August 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Pulp mill dispute: New York uneventful, next meeting The Hague

  

  Argentine and Uruguayan delegates will be meeting again in a month's time for a third round of negotiations to try to unlock the controversy over the construction of the Botnia pulp mill on the coast of the shared river Uruguay and which Argentina challenges on alleged legal and environmental grounds.

• Monday, July 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay has 3.8 cattle per capita, highest in the world

  

  Uruguay currently has a cattle herd of 12 million head with beef becoming the main export commodity of the country, over a billion US dollars last year. Based on this it can be said that Uruguay is the country with the highest number of cattle per capita, 3.8.

• Sunday, July 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute: “direct dialogue” moves to New York

  

  Two days of “direct dialogue” between Uruguayan and Argentine diplomats over the pulp mills dispute is scheduled to begin next Monday in New York under the auspices of the Spanish Crown which is acting as coordinator of the round of talks.