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Argentina's president urges to ratifying soy export tax
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-06-18 14:42

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (R) and Vice-President Julio Cobos applaud during a ceremony at the Casa Rosada Government Palace in Buenos Aires June 17, 2008. President Fernandez de Kirchner said on Tuesday she will send a bill to Congress aimed at ratifying a soy export tax that has set off a farmers' strike and a political crisis. [Agencies]