Argentina

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 01:30 UTC

  PM Cameron accuses Argentina of colonialism and protectionism ahead of G20

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron has fired a broadside at Argentina ahead of the opening of the G20 summit in Mexico, accusing the country of colonialism over the Falklands and protectionism in world trade.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 07:35 UTC

  Argentine government denies any re-re-election plan; opposition don’t believe them even if written on stone

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez main political spokesperson, Senator Alberto Fernández assured that the government has no plans of carrying out a constitutional reform and said that speculation about the 2013 legislative elections is “obscene.”

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 03:12 UTC

  “An agreement over the Falklands is a matter of time”, says world affairs analyst

  

  Analyst of the Investigation Conflicts Unit at The Hague, Ivan Briscoe said that some kind of agreement involving the Argentine claim of sovereignty of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands is only a matter of time.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 02:24 UTC

  Ban Ki-moon good offices on Falklands issue if “both parties are willing to engage”

  

  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon reiterated his good offices to help resolve the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the UK, but also pointed out “as long as the parties are willing to engage”.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 00:56 UTC

  Chile’s ENAP recovers oil concession revoked when Argentina seized YPF from Repsol

  

  Chile's state-owned oil and gas company ENAP, Empresa Nacional del Petroleo, recovered the Southern Argentine concession revoked in March by Chubut province, when the dispute over YPF, ENAP said in a statement Friday.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 00:12 UTC

  Cameron will personally present Falklands message to Kirchner

  

  By Graham Bound, London - Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez will get her wish on Monday or Tuesday, when she meets Prime Minister David Cameron in the fringes of the G20 meeting in Mexico to talk about the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 05:14 UTC

  C24 chair calls Falklands’ referendum ‘political ploy’; praises Argentine president

  

  The chair of the UN Decolonisation Committee Ecuadorian ambassador Diego Morejón Pazmiño described the UK announcement of a referendum in the Malvinas Islands as a “political ploy”, insisting that the Falkland Islanders can not appeal to the right of self determination.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 19:10 UTC

  Falklands “incredibly disappointed” with Argentines refusal of dialogue invitation

  

  The Falkland Islands Government is “incredibly disappointed” that despite claims from Argentine president Cristina Fernandez, before the United Nations, of “only wanting to sit down and discuss about Falklands”, her government rejected point blank an invitation to dialogue.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 06:23 UTC

  Argentina refuses to receive invitation to dialogue from the Falklands’ government

  

  A letter from the Falkland Islands government inviting the Argentine government to enter into a dialogue and which was to be delivered directly to President Cristina Fernandez’ delegation during the Decolonization Committee debate was frustrated by the passivity of the C24 chair and by Foreign Minister Hector Timerman.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez calls for an end to colonialism and blast UN Security Council

  

  In a strong speech claiming sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas issue addressing the UN Decolonization Committee, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez called on the UK “to leave this history of colonialism behind and start building a new history based on dialogue” but at the same time blasted the recent announcement of a referendum in the Islands do decide on their political status.