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Weekly Report - 25 January 2007
MERCOSUR: Argentina victorious but Mercosur loses out
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez departed from the two-day Mercosur summit in Rio de Janeiro on 19 January claiming that members had taken a step forward on integration. His optimism was belied by a ruling by the International Court of Justice at The Hague days later rejecting a request by Uruguay for Argentina to break up or end the periodic blocking of the three bridges across the River Uruguay.
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