Tag: Daniel Filmus

• Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - 07:04 UTC

  Next year's won't be just another Malvinas anniversary, Argentine Defense Minister Rossi vowed

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Agustin Rossi Friday presided over the ceremony where the Armed Forces commemorated the 39th anniversary of the military landing on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands which eventually led to the 1982 armed conflict with the United Kingdom and promised things will be different a year from now.

• Friday, January 22nd 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentina rejoiced with Germany's position on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute

  

  Argentina is rejoicing because Germany's flag carrier Lufthansa formally requested the Civil Aviation National Administration and the Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands provincial government over flight and landing authorization for two charter flights to the Malvinas Islands from Hamburg.

• Thursday, November 12th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentina criticizes Falklands' mines-free achievement, but is willing to share the humanitarian success

  

  The Argentine government has criticized the successful eleven-year demining process in the Falkland Islands arguing it is a new “violation” of a UN resolution calling on both sides, UK and Argentina, to abstain from any unilateral action in the disputed territories.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Members of the Malvinas Council appointed on the flag anniversary

  

  The Argentine government announced on Thursday some of the names that will be sitting at the National Council on Issues Relative to the Malvinas, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands, as passed unanimously by the Argentine congress last August.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina preparing to draft an oil exploration round in its extended South Atlantic continental shelf

  

  Oil and fisheries will spearhead Argentina's new efforts in its sovereignty claims over the Falkland Islands, according to Martin Dinatale, an Argentine columnist with good contacts in the foreign ministry and who has followed the Islands dispute for years.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Covid 19 testing: Argentina offers to help Falklands, which has no identified cases yet

  

  Argentina on Monday said it had reached out to Britain`s ambassador in Buenos Aires to offer material support to the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  UK/Argentina discuss trade and business opportunities, but also Malvinas

  

  UK Deputy Foreign Secretary for Europe and the Americas Wendy Morton held on Monday several meetings in Buenos Aires with officials from the new Argentine government looking to strengthen bilateral ties as well as boosting trade and investment.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Argentina suspends Strategic Dialogue on defense issues with UK

  

  Argentine minister of Defense Agustin Rossi announced the decision to postpone a Strategic Dialogue meeting with UK peers which was scheduled to take place during the first week of March.

• Friday, February 21st 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Argentina pressing Uruguay on Falklands' RAF flights landing in Carrasco

  

  Argentina is again putting pressure on Uruguay, this time on the incoming government which takes office next March first, insisting no UK military aircraft linked to the Falkland Islands be allowed to land in the country's airports and Falklands should not be treated as state with which Uruguay has extensive trade and business exchanges.

• Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Talks in Geneva for further remains identifications at the Falklands' Argentine military cemetery

  

  Argentina and the United Kingdom are holding talks in Geneva, with the International Red Cross for a new agreement on the identification of soldiers' remains in the Argentine Memorial cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands, where there is still at least one grave with uncertainty as to the name/names of who are buried.