Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:54 UTC

  Despite Malvinas, “we want to accord and collaborate with the UK” to the benefit of both countries

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri said he wants to reach an agreement with the UK that will enable collaboration in areas of mutual interest, despite the dispute over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, although 'we will never drop Argentina's historic claim on the issue'.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

  Project to identify Argentina soldiers' remains in Falklands, advancing says Clarin

  

  Argentina and Great Britain are close to reaching an agreement on procedures for the identification of the Argentine combatants buried at the memorial in the Falkland Islands, reports Clarin, Apparently discussions are quite advanced and an Argentine proposal was replied by a Foreign Office counter proposal.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:33 UTC

  Chileans that damaged a Malvinas monument in Rosario were finally set free

  

  The two young Chileans that remained in custody following the graffiti and damages to the Monument to the Malvinas fallen in the National Flag park of the city of Rosario, Argentina were finally set free by Federal Judge Carlos Vera Barros who decided a “lack of merit” in the charges.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2016 - 07:52 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas, an advance to celebrate

  

  By Andrés Cisneros (*) - With the reinstatement of the 'impasse' on the issue of the Malvinas Islands, the Argentine government has made a wise decision. Not only because it puts in course again something proven useful in the past, but also because, looking into the future, there is no better path to the solution of the problem. It's not the mere restoration of a policy (good or bad) which already happened.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2016 - 07:24 UTC

  Helicopters for Falklands transported by largest cargo aircraft: Antonov AN-124

  

  The pictures show a giant Russian-made transport plane landed at Newquay Airport in Cornwall before it headed out across the Atlantic to the Falkland Islands. The enormous Antonov AN-124 was in Cornwall to pick up two search and rescue helicopters, before heading out on the rest of its journey.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2016 - 07:07 UTC

  Falklands with “no big concentrations of Illex” this season, which is “worrying”

  

  Early indications from scientific surveys are showing “no big concentrations of Illex,” in the Falkland Islands waters or on the high seas, “which is worrying,” said Falkland Islands Government Senior Fisheries Scientist Sasha Arkhipkin as reported by the Penguin News.

• Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 10:08 UTC

  Falklands: Malcorra confident 'there's a horizon of possibility for dialogue'

  

  Foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that analyzing the different scenarios in the UK regarding the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute, “there is a horizon of possibility for Argentina to have a dialogue” on the issue.

• Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 07:27 UTC

  Fallon's Falklands visit caused 'concern' and displeasure

  

  The Argentine government expressed its 'concern' to the UK over Defense minister Michael Fallon's visit to the Falkland Islands where he spent time with the military at MPA and met with Falklands elected government authorities and members of the community, according to media reports in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 07:01 UTC

  'A change in policy towards Malvinas', according to La Nacion

  

  Buenos Aires daily La Nacion dedicated its main Friday editorial to the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, (A change in the policy towards Malvinas), underlining the new Argentine government's position promoting bilateral relations on all issues with the UK, but never forgetting the 'deep difference' over the Islands.

• Friday, February 19th 2016 - 08:04 UTC

  Falklands' sovereignty issue “was settled more than thirty years ago”, says Fallon

  

  The Falkland Islands is one of Britain’s biggest military bases and as part of the UK was, “entitled to its cut of the defense budget,” Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon MP said on Tuesday as he visited the Falklands for the first time.