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Tag: Falkland/Malvinas

  • Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 - 06:55 UTC

    Johnson and Faurie agree to advance relations, despite the Falklands dispute

     Johnson said ”our two positions are well known ...but that does not preclude and should not preclude all what we are doing together now to build a partnership ...

    British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that relations with Argentina will continue to grow despite the nations’ dispute over the Falkland Islands sovereignty. Argentina still claims the Islands that it calls the Malvinas. Britain says the Falklands are a self-governing British Overseas Territory under its protection, confirmed by a 2013 referendum.

  • Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 06:40 UTC

    “Falklands want a normal, friendly relationship with all its neighbors, but...”

    The Falklands' people right to determine their own future was unequivocal, as demonstrated in the March 2013 referendum.

    ”We would be delighted to have a normal, friendly relationship with all our neighbors, to freely trade with, work with and discuss things of mutual benefit” said Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Roger Edwards at the UN Decolonization 2018 Pacific Regional Seminar held in Grenada last week. But, he added, “instead, we are not recognized or accepted as a people in our own right”, by Argentina.

  • Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 06:36 UTC

    Malvinas veterans abused by their officers are demanding justice from IACHR

    “I was completing my time when the Malvinas were recovered. We were all called back and on 11 April, we were in the Islands”, explained Silvio Katz (Pic Vis a Vis)

    The Malvinas Islands ex Combatants Center, CECIM has requested the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR, to intercede before the Argentine government and demand a commitment that human rights abuses suffered by the Argentine conscripts during the South Atlantic conflict will be investigated. The case has 120 plaintiffs and 95 defendants.

  • Friday, April 27th 2018 - 08:40 UTC

    UK ambassador underlines how much Argentine/British relations have advanced

    Ambassador Mark Kent addresses the over 800 guests at the UK embassy to celebrate the 92nd birthday of Queen Elizabeth

    British ambassador in Buenos Aires Mark Kent underlined how much Argentine/UK relations have advanced lately and in a brief speech mentioned football, artificial intelligence and Falklands/Malvinas, areas in which so much is shared by the two countries and how good will and humanitarian values can bring people together and overcome minor interests.

  • Tuesday, April 24th 2018 - 23:21 UTC

    Falklands: “Commercial and cultural office” in Stanley to promote Argentina, suggests ex diplomat

    Jorge Lidio Viñuela during a visit to the Falkland Islands, pictured at an iconic signboard at the entrance of Stanley

    The Falklands population is crucial for any solution to the Argentine claim over the Islands given their overwhelming support from British public opinion (and political system), and its full integration with the 53-nation Commonwealth, according to Argentine ex diplomat Jorge Lidio Viñuela, considered an expert and militant on the issue of South Atlantic insular claims.

  • Friday, April 6th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

    Argentine minister refers to Malvinas as Falklands, and triggers a political storm

    Aguad made the huge diplomatic gaffe when referring to the search of the missing submarine for ARA San Juan, by using the British term for the islands,  Falklands

    Argentina's Defense minister has sparked a political storm after appearing to imply the Falkland Islands are British. Oscar Aguad has been accused by the Buenos Aires media of suggesting that the Islands were not part of Argentine territory.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

    Falkland Islanders react to Argentine Next of Kin Visit

    Throughout the process the Falklands government have actively allowed for and facilitated the work, seeing it through purely humanitarian terms.

    As Mercopress have covered, families of 90 unidentified soldiers visited the Falkland Islands from Argentina last week. They spent the day at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin and paid respects to their sons, brothers and partners whose remains were recently identified after a lengthy DNA process administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 07:15 UTC

    Macri pledges to Malvinas relatives that Argentina will continue to struggle for the Islands' sovereignty

    “Each April 2nd, we will remember and honor those young men that made the supreme sacrifice, a pledge we will never give up”, Macri told the next of kin

    President Mauricio Macri received at the Olivos residence the relatives of the 90 soldiers buried at the Argentine military cemetery in the Falkland Islands and pledged that Argentina will continue to struggle for the sovereignty and recovery of the Islands.

  • Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 05:19 UTC

    Malvinas Veteran and Fallen Day remembered in Argentina with two central ceremonies

    President Mauricio Macri will receive the relatives of the Malvinas fallen who last week travelled to the Falklands

    The 36th anniversary of the Falklands conflict in 1982 will be recalled in Argentina with two main events: Malvinas relatives will be received on Monday afternoon by president Mauricio Macri at his official residence in Olivos while Interior Minister Rogelio Fregerio will head the ceremony in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, next to the Beagle Channel.

  • Friday, March 30th 2018 - 22:16 UTC

    A humanitarian triumph in the aftermath of war

    Watching  Sergio Fernandez and Geoffrey Cardozo together conveys a message of hope that in this time and age is refreshing.

    By Nicholas Tozer -Buenos Aires.
    THE visit by over two hundred of Argentine next-of-kin to the Argentine Military Cemetery in Darwin in East Falkland earlier this week undoubtedly marks a new milestone in the so-often troubled relations between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands dispute.