Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:35 UTC

  UK “feeling uneasy” with Argentine diplomatic campaign to recover the Malvinas

  

  Argentine Defence minister Arturo Puricelli rejected the announced UK plan to create a huge marine protection zone in South Georgia saying the British are feeling “uneasy” because of the Argentine diplomatic work displayed to claim the South Atlantic Islands.

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  Peruvian group in support and solidarity with Argentine Falklands/Malvinas Islands

  

  Peruvian diplomats, jurists and academia presented the Argentine ambassador in Lima Dario D’Alessandro a document formalizing the Peruvian Group in Support and Solidarity with Argentine Sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 06:51 UTC

  Argentine lawmaker blasts UK marine conservation project in South Georgia

  

  Argentine lawmaker and president of the Malvinas Islands Parliamentary Observatory Alfredo Atanasof said Britain’s intention of creating a huge marine conservation zone in waters of South Georgia was “completely illegitimate”.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 02:10 UTC

  UK protests to Argentina the interception of Falklands licensed fishing vessels

  

  The UK has protested to Argentina over its interception of Falkland Islands-licensed fishing boats, mainly Spanish in disputed South Atlantic waters and in the River Plate when they approach the port of Montevideo.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 20:44 UTC

  For old time's sake

  

  THE third of a planned series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler. John is a former Superintendent of Education and a former Manager of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 06:54 UTC

  The 33-nation CELAC grants full support to Argentina in the Falklands’ dispute

  

  The members of the newly former CELAC (Community of Latinamerican and Caribbean States) unanimously approved on Saturday a document in support of Argentina’s claim over the Falklands/Malvinas and anticipated they would request the intervention of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2011 - 08:56 UTC

  Correa says OAS should have been disarticulated in 1982 when the Malvinas war

  

  Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa again questioned the existence of the Organization of American States, OAS, which should have been disarticulated in 1982 during the Falklands/Malvinas war and insisted that the region’s problems “should be discussed in the region and not in Washington”.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 04:26 UTC

  Malvinas war veterans demand DNA tests to identify soldiers buried at Darwin

  

  Malvinas war veterans are demanding DNA tests to identify the unknown soldiers buried at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin as part of the remembrance events of the 30th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict in 2012.

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 18:41 UTC

  Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group manifests public support for Argentina

  

  A Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group visited this week the Argentine legation in Santiago to meet Ambassador Ginés González Garcia and express their support for Argentina’s claim over the disputed Falklands and other South Atlantic islands.

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 03:49 UTC

  Uruguay denies access to Malvinas-bound Royal Navy vessels to please Argentina

  

  Uruguay had to stand up to a world power and deny dock access to a Royal Navy vessel on its way to the Falklands/Malvinas to retain good relations with Argentina, admitted the Uruguayan President Jose Mujica in Guadalajara where he met with members of the Uruguayan colony in Mexico.