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At least that's what the Argentinian mardi-gras queen of beauty thought it was a good idea... A resident of Gualeguaychu, Argentina, Evangelina Carrozo, helped by Greenpeace, managed to get through all the security at the EU-Latin American summit in Vienna, and strolled in a flashy bikini, holding a sign, protesting for the building of two cellulose pulp mills on the other side of the river, in Uruguay.
And this, so you have a little background about the whole problem: Two cellulose pulp plants areabout to be completed near the Uruguay river, on the Uruguaian side. The people from the towns on the Argentinian side were not pleased, started to picket the international routes and bridges stopping traffic from Argentina to Uruguay. It has escalated to a tense situation between Argentina, Uruguay... and Finland!
quote:The Argentine president demanded that the EU apply a "global solution�for the protection of the environment, which must be cared for in industrialised countries as well as in those that have not yet achieved development, in rich countries and in poor countries, in the North and in the South, in countries of the centre and those of the periphery."
"What we can by no means accept is that countries more developed than ours should try to transfer to us the most heavily polluting part of their industrial processes," he said, before calling on European governments to "abandon double standards."
Kirchner was specifically referring to the ongoing dispute between his country and Uruguay over the construction on the Uruguayan side of a border river of two pulp plants by the ENCE company of Spain and Finland's Metsa-Botnia. The two factories will produce a total of 1.5 million tons of paper pulp a year.
We're thinking of starting a war against Finland, and looting all their cellphones. Seriously.
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Remember what happened the LAST time you guys started a war?
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Its interesting that the men in the first shot showing her ass seems to focus on her chest while the woman was reading the sign... perhaps she should have had it body-painted on her chest.
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