Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Monday, March 12th 2012 - 07:14 UTC

  UK minister Browne to meet Piñera two days ahead of Cristina Fernandez

  

  The UK’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Jeremy Browne arrives Monday in Chile for a two day visit and has scheduled a meeting with President Sebastián Piñera. The event consequently takes place just before Argentine President Cristina Fernández official visit on March 15 and in the lead up to the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas War.

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  Yes, they have no bananas (in Falkland and in Bs. Aires)

  

  FOR the Falklands to be short of bananas as a result of Argentina’s bully-boy blockade and trade restrictions is understandable. For Argentina to run out of bananas you’d think would be impossible in a sub-continent which grows millions of them. But a few weeks ago, they had no bananas in Buenos Aires shops. Only the incompetent Argentines could achieve the impossible. It’s not just bananas they are slipping up on.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2012 - 05:16 UTC

  Argentina announces a museum for the ARA Belgrano marines killed during the Falklands conflict

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez says a new museum dedicated to the Falklands/Malvinas Islands will honour Argentine marines killed trying to reclaim them from Britain 30 years ago.

• Monday, March 5th 2012 - 06:04 UTC

  Change in Argentine policy is “an attempt to collect support and look less mean”

  

  The apparent change in Argentine policy towards the Falkland Islands by offering three direct flights to the Islands from Buenos Aires instead of cutting the air link with Chile, as had been anticipated, was described by Chilean diplomatic sources as “an attempt to collect international support and look less mean”.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2012 - 04:47 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez preparing legal framework to ‘raid’ Central bank reserves

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez sent a bill to Congress on Thursday aimed at helping the government tap more central bank reserves to help repay foreign debt and defend the country's currency.

• Friday, March 2nd 2012 - 22:05 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Why we can't accept Cristina's 'kind' gesture

  

  By John Fowler (*) - I handed the family's passports to a rather stern-looking official behind a desk, while my wife and mother-in-law passed through into the departure lounge with our daughter, who was just a few months short of her first birthday. Along with the passports, I also handed over three white identity cards. These were issued by the country through which we were in transit on our way to holidays in Britain from our home in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, March 2nd 2012 - 21:33 UTC

  Any negotiations “must start from a position of trust” Falklands tells Argentina

  

  Negotiations must start from a position of trust and “it is hard to trust a Government who so easily break their word, and who deny our right to exist as a people”, said Falklands lawmaker Roger Edwards in response to the announcement by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on direct air-links to the Falklands.

• Friday, March 2nd 2012 - 05:06 UTC

  Falklands distrust to Argentine proposal, but recall 1999 deal is ‘three sided’

  

  Falkland Islanders reacted with skepticism and further distrust to the latest announcements by Argentine president Cristina Fernandez regarding air links with Argentina, while Falklands’ elected lawmakers said the proposal was too ‘muddled’ and with errors for the local government to respond.

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 22:38 UTC

  Argentina wants to review 1999 accord with Aerolineas direct flights Buenos Aires/Falklands

  

  President Cristina Fernandez said Argentina will seek to re-negotiate the 1999 accord with the UK which allows for a weekly flight connecting the Falklands Islands and Chile, and replace it with three schedules a week but from Buenos Aires and in the country’s flag carrier, Aerolineas Argentinas.

• Wednesday, February 29th 2012 - 07:42 UTC

  Unasur presidents invited to Tierra del Fuego on 2 April, anniversary of the Malvinas war

  

  The Union of South American Nations, Unasur presidents have been invited by Argentina to a ceremony in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, next 2 April when the official beginning of the Malvinas war three decades ago.