Argentina

Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 09:23 UTC
Venezuelan carrier executives claim nothing wrong with 747

Emtrasur CEO César Pérez said in an interview that the Iranian crew members of the company's Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza International Airport were flight instructors and that the scandal that has unfolded was “ridiculous.”
Monday, June 27th 2022 - 19:35 UTC
Johnson tells Fernández Falklanders and Ukrainians entitled to self determination

President Alberto Fernández Monday told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that more Britons were living in Argentina than in the Falkland Islands, but that did not change an iota the Conservative's leader stance that there was nothing to talk about in that regard because Falkland Islanders, like all people, have a right to self-determination, according to his post-meeting comments to the press quoted by Clarín.
Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:57 UTC
Falklands in agenda of Fernandez bilateral meeting with Johnson at G7

Argentine president Alberto Fernandez confirmed that this Monday afternoon, at the G7 summit in Munich he will be holding a fifteen minutes bilateral talk with UK prime minister Boris Johnson in which he plans to bring up the issue of the Falkland Islands.
Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:20 UTC
Argentina demands UK flagged vessels with toothfish licenses in South Georgia be listed as IUU

British flagged fishing vessels are illegally operating in South Georgia waters, with illegitimate licenses awarded by the United Kingdom, and outside of the multilateral agreement which rules operations in those fisheries, according to a formal complaint from the Argentine foreign ministry made public.
Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:17 UTC
Argentine Army and Impsa agree on modernization of tanks

The Argentine Defense Ministry, the Argentine Army, and the Mendoza-based company Impsa have signed an agreement to modernize the turrets of several locally-built 2C tanks, it was reported.
Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 10:20 UTC
Emtrasur: Judge asks US for information on aircraft and crew link to terrorism

Argentine Federal Judge Federico Villena has sent rogatory letters to United States authorities to determine whether the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 held at the Ezeiza airport was subject to any formal embargo or restriction, it was reported Friday in Buenos Aires.
Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 10:05 UTC
President says Argentina would like to join BRICS

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday made a virtual appearance at this week's BRICS Summit, during which he asked that his country be admitted into the bloc alongside Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 09:44 UTC
Faulty lithium batteries caused the fire that killed Jewish family in Buenos Aires

Argentine prosecutors handling the case of Thursday's fire at a building in Buenos Aires' Recoleta neighborhood where 5 members of a Jewish family were killed Friday explained that according to preliminary forensic assessments the cause of ignition was a faulty skateboard lithium battery.
Friday, June 24th 2022 - 10:18 UTC
C24 resolution calls on Argentina and UK to resume Falklands' negotiations

The Special Committee on Decolonization adopted on Thursday a resolution requesting the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom to consolidate the current process of dialogue through the resumption of negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute relating to the question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).
Friday, June 24th 2022 - 00:28 UTC
Paraguay launches probe into Emtrasur 747's Ciudad del Este stop

Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez has instructed the Anti-corruption Minister René Fernández to request the Prosecutor's Office to launch a probe into the stop in Ciudad del Este in May of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 aircraft with Iranian pilots currently held in Buenos Aires.