MercoPress https://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2026, MercoPress. https://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[London says Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falklands]]> Streeting also said “this issue was settled in 1982” and that the will of the archipelago's residents, “the overwhelming majority of whom choose to be British”, remains unchanged British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falkland Islands and that the United Kingdom “has the ability to defend” them, in an interview with the Sunday paper The Sun on Sunday published on Saturday. Asked whether London could protect the archipelago militarily if Buenos Aires sent warships, he answered yes.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:33:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign]]> The column describes Milei as having moved from economic libertarianism to nationalism and, having once celebrated Margaret Thatcher, now seeking to attract Donald Trump with oil concessions An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other British overseas territories, among them the Falklands. The piece, by journalist Daniel Johnson, is an argument of opinion rather than a report of new facts.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:51:00 GMT <![CDATA[Falklands Assembly responds to Argentina's campaign: “This Assembly remains calm”]]> Ford thanked the British prime minister, the foreign secretary, the minister for the Overseas Territories and figures “right across the UK political spectrum” for their support The chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford, said on Thursday during a sitting of the body that there is “nothing new” in the claims made this week, and that the institution “remains calm” and steadfast in defending the right of the archipelago's residents to determine their own future.

]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:26:00 GMT <![CDATA[Milei and Netanyahu discussed the Falklands in his only bilateral in New York]]> Asked by Argentine reporters whether the subject had come up, Quirno said “yes”, and “fine” when asked how that part of the conversation had gone Argentine President Javier Milei met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about twenty minutes on Thursday at United Nations headquarters, in what was his only bilateral meeting with a head of state or government during his trip to New York. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed they discussed the Falklands.

]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:28:00 GMT <![CDATA[“The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei]]> “The UN has more reason to exist every day,” Orsi said, while calling for multilateral institutions that are “more effective, more representative” and closer to people's needs Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that of his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, two days earlier from the same podium.

]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:41:00 GMT <![CDATA[Poverty in Argentina rises to 32.3%, ending two years of decline]]> The measurement covers the 31 urban agglomerations surveyed by the Permanent Household Survey, where 9,729,000 people fell below the poverty line and 2,249,000 below the extreme poverty line Poverty in Argentina reached 32.3% of people in the first half of 2026, an increase of 4.1 percentage points on the second half of 2025, the National Institute of Statistics and Census reported on Thursday. The figure interrupts the downward path the indicator had followed since mid-2024. Extreme poverty rose 1.2 points, from 6.3% to 7.5%.

]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:26:00 GMT <![CDATA[UK replies to Milei: “not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”]]> Photo: REUTERS/Kylie Cooper The United Kingdom has asked for a written statement to be placed in the official record of the UN General Assembly in response to Argentine President Javier Milei's address, saying Buenos Aires' conduct over the Falklands “is wholly incompatible with the principles established in the United Nations Charter and is not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:59:00 GMT <![CDATA[Milei at the UN: “The Malvinas are a national cause for us”]]> It was his third speech as president to the body and the eighth of the day's speakers, running 19 minutes Argentine President Javier Milei called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to act over what he described as unilateral British actions in the Falklands, and accused the organisation of having “decided to look the other way” on the dispute. “The Malvinas are a national cause for us,” he said, repeating the phrase twice at the start of his address.

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:54:00 GMT <![CDATA[Burnham at the UN: “the rights of British territories to remain British”]]> “We will stand firm in the face of any threats and challenges to the rule of law,” he said British Prime Minister Andy Burnham placed the Falklands among the challenges to the rule of law in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered on Tuesday evening in New York, setting them in the same sentence as Russia.

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:49:00 GMT <![CDATA[Replica of the flag shown by Argentina's football team unfurled at Darwin cemetery]]> The delegation spent a week in the islands and visited Stanley, the Darwin cemetery and various sites of the 1982 fighting A group of Argentine veterans of the 1982 war and relatives of fallen soldiers unfurled at the Darwin cemetery in the Falklands a flag bearing the inscription “The Malvinas are Argentine”, a design the Argentine press describes as a reproduction of the one displayed by Argentina's national football team after defeating England at the 2026 World Cup. It is the first time the emblem has been displayed in the archipelago.

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