The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) will be represented at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester from 5-8 October. Last week FIG was present at the Labor Party conference in Brighton.
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that one day this century an Argentine president will be able to visit the Malvinas Islands to homage the Argentine soldiers who died in the war with Britain 27 years ago and are buried in the Falklands.
“A day for humanitarianism: leaving politics aside and providing relatives of the fallen with a right to grieve” was how Paul Martínez, First Secretary from Falkland Islands Government House described Saturday’s visit by 165 members of the Malvinas Families for the inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery.