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Article: PAPER MILL CONFLICT: INTERNATIONAL COURT REFUSES TO ORDER SHUTDOWN OF ARGENTINE PROTEST ROAD BLOCKADES INTO URUGUAY.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- February 16, 2007
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Argentine environmentalists have continued to block roads into Uruguay after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague decided on Jan. 23 not to order an end to the roadblocks. The court sided against Uruguay's demand for preventive measures to end the roadblocks, which environmentalists have set up to pressure Uruguay not to build two paper mills along a river the two nations share. The protests have included calls for supporters not to vacation or bank in Uruguay. Spain has sought to mediate between the two nations in the long-running conflict regarding the wood-pulp mills, which Argentina says will pollute the Rio Uruguay (see NotiSur, 2005-09-16 and ...
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Inter Press Service English News Wire;
January 25, 2007 ;
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... ... unexpectedly favorable to Argentina in its pulp mill dispute with Uruguay, the two countries ... down a request by Uruguay to force Argentina to put an end to ... respecting the Uruguay River Treaty ... authorities in Argentina and celebrated ...
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