Tag: Daniel Filmus

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Argentina announces the construction of labs in Antarctica to reaffirm science and sovereignty

  

  Argentina will create “Antarctic Multidisciplinary Laboratories” to further promote research in the country's bases in the white continent, in the framework of the program “Building Science”. The program is sponsored by the ministries of Foreign Affairs; Science, Technology and Innovation, and Defense, and has specific funds earmarked.

• Friday, September 24th 2021 - 20:09 UTC

  Former Mendoza Deputy chosen for Argentina's Malvinas Secretariat

  

  After Argentine President, Alberto Fernández appointed Daniel Filmus as Science Minister, the position of Malvinas Islands Secretary had been vacant until Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero announced Friday he had chosen former Mendoza National Deputy Guillermo Carmona for the job.

• Monday, September 20th 2021 - 07:52 UTC

  Filmus pleased with the ministerial appointment: “I am passionate about science and technology”

  

  Argentina' s newly appointed Science and Technology minister, Daniel Filmus, said he was very thankful to president Alberto Fernandez for the job since “it's a enormous opportunity to fight for an issue” of which he is “passionate” and was also pleased that the consequences of last Sunday's primary elections were “quickly settled” with a consensus cabinet.

• Saturday, September 18th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine President reshuffles cabinet to overcome electoral defeat

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday announced a major cabinet reshuffle in an attempt to build up a new government team with which to reverse last Sunday's loss at the Open, Mandatory and Simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 05:32 UTC

  “I will use force to defend the Falklands”, Boris Johnson to the UK media

  

  The United Kingdom confirmed that it will maintain a military presence in the Falkland Islands, whose sovereignty is claimed by Argentina, to “protect it from state and non-state threats,” according to an advance of the strategic review of security, defense and foreign policy that prime minister Boris Johnson will present this Tuesday, the first after the departure of the European bloc.

• Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine literary critic says Falklands are British, sparks rejection and controversy

  

  Statements by Argentine literary and cultural critic Beatriz Sarlo who Tuesday said that the Falkland Islands were “British territory” sparked nationwide controversies about which she defiantly warned she “cared very little.”

• Thursday, July 8th 2021 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentina takes action against foreign oil companies operating on South Atlantic continental shelf

  

  Argentina's Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Energy Wednesday announced sanctions were to be imposed on three companies for operating illegally in the South Atlantic.

• Thursday, July 8th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Three companies (two UK and one Israel) involved in Falklands' oil industry, added to Argentina's sanctions list

  

  Argentina announced it has launched a sanctions process against several foreign oil companies, the UK based Chrysaor Holdings Ltd, Harbor Energy Plc, and Israel's Navitas Petroleum for involvement in hydrocarbons activities, with illegitimate Falkland Islands licenses, in the Argentine continental shelf, more precisely at the Sea Lion project in North Malvinas basin

• Monday, June 28th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Filmus insulted by a passenger in his return trip and for flying first class in American; “UN sent the tickets”

  

  Argentina's Malvinas and Antarctica secretary was rebuked and insulted in his return trip from New York in a first-class American Airlines flight. The passenger recorded the incident on his cell phone which he then twitted and immediately went viral.

• Monday, June 21st 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Scholarships for Falklands' alumni to continue their graduate and postgraduate studies in Argentina

  

  Argentina has launched a program of scholarships for Falkland Islands' students, who “have the full right to access the Argentine national education system”, announced Daniel Filmus, head of the Malvinas and Antarctica Department, and Jaime Perczyk chairman of the Ministry of Education University Policies.