The Argentina-Uruguay dispute attracts EU notice

aw, g-e-e-eeeez, you guys... you couldn't figure out how to solve it your damn selves and now look... thanks to you, the grown-ups are sticking their noses into it... fercryinoutloud... get a clue, will ya...?



Argentina - - - - EU - - - - Finland



Spain - - - - Uruguay

European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson yesterday warned that an Argentine-Uruguayan dispute over a paper pulp mills project involving European companies could harm European trade relations with Latin America.

Argentina is protesting at the construction of two mills by a Finnish company and a Spanish company in Uruguay near the river that forms the border with Argentina. Argentines say the plants will contaminate the Uruguay River and hurt agriculture, and on Wednesday, President Néstor Kirchner once again demanded an environmental impact study and urged Finland to help find a solution.

Mandelson, speaking to reporters during a visit to the Finnish capital, said he hoped the dispute could be "amicably resolved."

"I don’t think anyone’s economic interests could possibly be served by pursuing this dispute to the point of raising questions about whether European investment in Latin America... will be safe in the future," said Mandelson. "Nobody will benefit from that."

when you've got the eu trade commissioner tut-tutting over possible consequences to future foreign investment in the entire damn continent, you really need to take the hint and get this squared away...

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