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Mrs. Kirchner’s Malvinas Veteran Day message from London
President Cristina Fernadez de Kirchner On the 27th anniversary of the Argentine landing in Falklands/Malvinas, which triggered the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, the Argentine government will commemorate Thursday April 2 the Day of the Veteran and the Fallen in the Malvinas War.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner currently in London participating of the G-20 world leaders’ summit is scheduled to make an address on Argentine national television. She will also hold a symbolic commemoration at the Argentine embassy in London
In Buenos Aires Defence Minister Nilda Garré will lead the ceremony Thursday morning at the Sergeant Cabral Non Commissioned Officers Army School in the huge Campo de Mayo military compound.
According to the official Argentine release Mrs. Kirchner in her address will recall “Operation Rosario” when Argentine forces momentarily “recovered the Malvinas islands”. Argentine forces landed April 2 and capitulated June 14, 1982 to a British Task Force sent to recover the Islands.
When her address she will be accompanied by the Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brigadier General Jorge Chevalier; Rear Admiral Pablo Vignoles and Colonel Mayor Alejandro Brizuela, all of them Malvinas veterans. Three non commissioned officers from the three services will also be at the ceremony.
Previous to the message the Argentine president will lay a flower wreath at the monument of Argentina’s Liberator Jose de San Martín across from the embassy in Belgrave Square.
In Buenos Aires Minister Garré and the second in command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Daniel Camponovo will talk about the significance of April 2. Later at 11 o’clock there will be another commemoration at the cenotaph to the Malvinas fallen in downtown Buenos Aires at the San Martin Square. The cenotaph has plaques with the names of all Argentine combatants who did not return from the war.
Officially 649 Argentines were killed in combat and 1.068 wounded.
It was also announced that Mrs. Kirchner will to return to Buenos Aires on Friday (instead of Saturday) to pay her respects to the family of former president Raúl Alfonsín who died this week. Mrs. Kirchner described Mr. Alfonsin as a man of “strong convictions” and although they did have differences “he always defended his positions with great dignity”.
The Argentine president was informed of Mr. Alfonsin death on arrival at London and immediately contacted the family plus declaring a three day national mourning and flags at half mast.
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Read all commentsI m sorry for the comment of 1-Juan. The lack of education and respect are sad badges of the Argentinians. My condolences and respect for the dead men in so absurd war. I understand and sorry about the reason of that do not want to be Argentinians. I was in Port Stanley in 1981, you have a beautiful home. My respects.
Apr 03rd, 2009 - 02:27 am +1Luis.
Apr 05th, 2009 - 03:55 am +1...“we just use a song and diplomacy”
Are you suggesting that on the 2nd of April 1982 Argentina engaged in diplomacy?
Esta marcha es fruto de una selección de un concurso realizado en 1939 por la Junta de Recuperación de las Malvinas donde se eligió a la mejor composición poético-musical. En esa oportunidad el trabajo escogido fue la composición de José Tieri con letra de Carlos Obligado. Desde entonces esta marcha se canta en los actos celebratorios y reclamatorios de los Derechos Soberanos sobre las Islas Malvinas.
Apr 10th, 2009 - 08:40 pm +1er.... not forgetting the chorus....
Para honor de nuestro emblema
para orgullo nacional,
brille !oh Patria!, en tu diadema
la PERDIDA PARA SIEMPRE perla austral.
This mean lost forever of course... very appropriate.
One would have expected that this would have been written in 1833, it is amazing that it took 106 years for you lot to get your act together to write such nonsense. It clearly does not come from the heart but from the propaganda machine given its very late appearance.
This is just like the transitional 'Malvinas' clause added to the constitution in 1994. Why was that not in the 1853 constitution? Only just thought of it..well that’s a surprise.
All these new elements to the Argentine claim to the Falklands originate from the 1930's invention of the Malvinas Myth which are intended to brainwash the population into believing a pack of lies originating from Palacios and his equally mad cronies who saw themselves as some sort of New Conquistadores but in the Mussolini and Hitler mode of the time. We should bury these people and their crazy ideas and not let then disturb out peace from their graves as people like Luis Barone try to do now.
The people of the Falklands and Argentina should be friends in the normal way as between two separate entities but not in the way dictated by all this fascist nationalistic nonsense.
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