Argentina

• Monday, June 26th 2023 - 10:56 UTC

  UK reply to Argentina at OAS, “no dialogue on sovereignty unless the Falkland Islanders wish it”

  

  British Foreign Minister for the Americas and the Caribbean, David Rutley MP gave a statement, on 23 June, to the Organization of America States in response to the Argentine Government's draft declaration on the Falkland Islands:

• Monday, June 26th 2023 - 08:26 UTC

  Tight win for ruling party in Argentine province of Córdoba

  

  After Sunday's gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Córdoba, Martín Llaryora of the ruling front led by Governor Juan Schiaretti was congratulated as the winner by politicians from almost every party.

• Sunday, June 25th 2023 - 20:34 UTC

  One of these 13 people will be Argentina's next president

  

  After Saturday's deadline for registering candidacies, there are only 13 contenders left, one of whom will be Argentina's next president comes Dec. 10.

• Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  Presidential elections: Argentina's ruling party lines up behind Massa

  

  Mighty Economy Minister Sergio Massa will be a presidential candidate in Argentina's upcoming mandatory, open, and simultaneous primary (PASO) elections on behalf of the ruling Unión por la Patria (UP) front, with Cabinet Chief Agustín Rossi as his running mate, it was announced Friday in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Paraná Waterway: Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia back Paraguay

  

  Brazil, Uruguay, and Bolivia Friday supported Paraguay's stance regarding Argentina's decision to charge tolls to barges sailing through the “Port of Santa Fe-Confluencia” section of the Parana River, it was reported in Buenos Aires after a new meeting of the Commission of the Paraguay-Parana Waterway Agreement.

• Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Former death flights aircraft back in Argentine territory

  

  The British-built Shorts Skyvan PA-51 used by Argentina's military dictatorship to throw three Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and two French nuns alive into the sea in one of the so-called “death flights” in 1977 landed Friday at Tucumán and is expected in Buenos Aires by Monday to be added to a museum.

• Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  ARA Patagonia undergoes successful overhauling

  

  Argentina has completed the overhauling of the ARA Patagonia logistics ship after five months' work at the Arsenal Naval Puerto Belgrano (ARPB) docks, Zona Militar reported.

• Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 23:07 UTC

  China backs Argentina's Falklands claim and warns about “colonial thinking”

  

  Chinese ambassador to the United Nations Geng Shuang has backed Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands and called on countries to abandon “colonial thinking”, warning of its serious implications for the international order.

• Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:47 UTC

  Argentina did nothing to charge toll, Paraguay's Waterway Commission finds

  

  Paraguay's National Waterway Commission concluded that Argentina's technical explanations for charging tolls to vessels sailing through the Parana River between the Port of Santa Fe and the Confluence with the Paraguay River were inadequate and that there was no justification for such a unilateral measure, it was reported in Asunción.

• Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:27 UTC

  Argentina again calls on UK for peaceful solution to Falklands/Malvinas dispute

  

  As announced the Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero on Tuesday morning, in New York, before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization again called on the United Kingdom for bilateral negotiations with Argentina for a pacific and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands.