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Montevideo, May 28th 2025 - 22:00 UTC

Tag: Argentine sovereignty

  • Tuesday, January 3rd 2017 - 06:41 UTC

    Malvinas: Argentina calls on UK for dialogue and sovereignty discussions

    The Argentine people and government “reaffirm their imprescriptible sovereignty rights” over the austral territories and maritime spaces inherited from Spain

    Argentina has invited the United Kingdom to advance with the dialogue initiated last year to resume negotiations to enable in the shortest time possible, to find a peaceful and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands, abiding the iterative calls from the international community, according to a release from the Argentine foreign ministry.

  • Monday, September 19th 2016 - 05:59 UTC

    “Malvinas sovereignty claim is standing and non negotiable”, anticipates Macri in New York

    Macri is scheduled to address the General Assembly on Tuesday but has a full agenda of political and financial interviews as part of “new Argentina policy”

    Argentina's claim over the Malvinas Islands is standing and non negotiable, were the first words of president Mauricio Macri when he arrived on Sunday to New York to attend this week the UN General Assembly. The statement follows the strong reactions to the last Wednesday Argentine/UK joint cooperation statement which includes a South Atlantic chapter strongly questioned in some political circles.

  • Monday, January 4th 2016 - 06:45 UTC

    Macri's government renews Falklands' sovereignty claim and calls on UK for dialogue

    The statement insists that solution to the issue will be through a path of dialogue, peace and diplomacy, “to which the international community is urging us to”

    President Mauricio Macri's government reaffirmed on Sunday, 3 January, Argentina's sovereignty rights over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands on the 183 anniversary of the 'British occupation of the archipelago' in the South Atlantic, and called for dialogue with the United Kingdom. In a statement published in the Foreign Ministry site it said that “Argentina renews its commitment to the peaceful solution of controversies, to international law to and multilateralism”.

  • Wednesday, December 17th 2014 - 04:52 UTC

    Filmus: Scholar approach at Malvinas Question

    Argentine Secretary of Malvinas Affairs Daniel Filmus calls for three-part deeper approach. at the issue of sovereignty

    Argentina's Secretary of Malvinas (Falklands) Daniel Filmus moves spotlight onto juridical, historical knowledge, continental platform and international relationships to back sovereignty claims

  • Wednesday, December 10th 2014 - 08:02 UTC

    Falklands' sovereignty bilateral talks requested by leaders' summit in Mexico

    Negotiations should be in the framework of resolutions from the United Nations, Organization of American States including the principle of territorial integrity.

    Argentina managed to include a special statement on the Falklands/Malvinas question, at the end of the Ibero American leaders summit held in Mexico, calling on both sides of the dispute, Argentina and the UK, to resume negotiations, in the shortest time possible, to reach a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich islands and surrounding maritime spaces.

  • Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 05:15 UTC

    Lady Alice: “Argentines eat a lot of beef, but have never eaten a journalist”

    Jeremy Clarkson, expert in baits for controversy and fabrications who appeals to English nationalistic instincts

    Jeremy Clarkson and BBC's 'Top Gear' program need publicity and controversy to keep going and that he has managed with his recent incursion through the south of Argentina, which ended with his team escorted to the border with Chile fearing 'for their lives', which obviously impeded them from accomplishing their formal task but not the real objective.

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 07:43 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas issue to be addressed by Mercosur parliament 11 November

    The Parlasur delegation with their host Julian Dominguez, president of the Lower House, during the visit to the Argentine congress

    The Mercosur Parliament, Parlasur will be holding a special session next 11 November in Montevideo dedicated to the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty issue, it was announced this Monday in Buenos Aires during a visit of a delegation from the regional legislative to the Argentine congress.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 08:19 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez took time to pick on the Falklands at her 'dialogue' speech

    “Someday our Malvinas will be recovered. There is no colonialism that lasts so many centuries” (Pic Telam)

    Cristina Fernandez on her Friday Flag Day speech in which she lowered usual rhetoric and asked US Judge Thomas Griesa for negotiations with the holdout hedge funds, picked on the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute to channel her fury and forecasted there “is no colonialism that can last so many centuries, eventually they fall”.

  • Monday, June 9th 2014 - 20:19 UTC

    Argentina presents book on the Malvinas Question and the international community

    Timerman and Filmus at the ceremony in the San Martín Palace presenting the book in two versions, Spanish and English

    A book with a collection of documents and historic background under the heading of “The International Community and the Malvinas Question”, both in English and Spanish was presented on Monday by Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman and top officials from his office.

  • Monday, May 19th 2014 - 09:15 UTC

    Falkland Islands governor 'disrespectful' towards Argentina; Islanders would be better off under Argentina

    Ambassador Alicia Castro sent a barrage of accusations and claims regarding the Falklands/Malvinas

    Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro blasted Falklands Governor Colin Roberts claiming he has been disrespectful towards Argentina, insisted every country is aware that Argentina would never again invade the Falklands and underlined Islanders would be much better off under Argentine sovereignty since, “as all other provinces they could elect their own governor, and not have to live under an envoy from the Queen”.