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Costa Rica
Pushes To Be Host Of European-
Central America Trade Deal
President Oscar Arias wants
Costa Rica to be the home of the
first round of meetings of talks
for the beginning of a trade
deal agreement between Central
America and the European Union (EU).
The announcement of the location
will be made this weekend in
Vienna, Austria.
U.S.
Pledges Strong Support for Costa
Rica
The United States values its
relationship with Costa Rica and
reaffirmed its strong support
for the country at the May 8
inauguration of President Oscar
Arias, according to U.S. first
lady Laura Bush.
ICE
Selects Lucent For Value-Added
Services
Lucent Technologies that the
Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) - the state
monopoly on telecommunications -
has awarded Lucent a contract to
deploy elements of Lucent's IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
service architecture and a
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
solution to offer next
generation voice and data
services.
Gasoline
Prices Up Saturday
You
have all of today and tomorrow
to fill your gas tank, because
come 12:01am Saturday, the price
of gasoline at the pumps will
jump drastically.
June
9th A National Holiday?
What Are Some of The Pressing
Problems Facing the New
Administration?
The
new government of Oscar Arias
has said it may declare June 9,
the day of the opening game of
the FIFA World Cup 2006 between
Costa Rica and Germany, a
national holiday.
Costa
Ricans Charged with Child
Trafficking
Costa Rica's Justice charged a
group of nationals with child
trafficking and illegal
association that traded in the
adoption of Guatemalan children
for us$42,000 dollars.
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