Tag: Darwin Cemetery DNA samples

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Duncan downplays comments on Foradori, but damage to Falklands' 2016 Joint Statement has been done

  

  Ex Foreign Office minister for the Americas, Alan Duncan has said that former Argentine deputy foreign minister Carlos Foradori was a formidable negotiator, despite having written in a book on his memoirs that his counterpart in trade, cooperation and Falklands/Malvinas negotiations at the British embassy cellar in Buenos Aires, rang the following morning to say he “was pissed” since the night before he had drank too much.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 06:31 UTC

  Falklands' Humanitarian Plan to identify Argentine soldiers remains extended

  

  Argentina, United Kingdom and the Red Cross International Committee with the consent of the Falklands Islands have agreed to extend the Humanitarian Plan of identifying remains buried at the Argentine military cemetery close Darwin.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 08:28 UTC

  Second humanitarian visit to Falklands confirmed by Buenos Aires and UK ambassador

  

  The Argentine government has confirmed that in coming days it will be meeting with Malvinas families and UK authorities to organize another humanitarian trip to the Falkland Islands so that the next of kin of the 18 recently identified Argentine soldiers can visit, honor and pray at their graves in the Argentine military cemetery near Darwin.

• Monday, January 21st 2019 - 07:47 UTC

  Falklands supports a visit next March of the families from the 18 newly identified Argentine soldiers

  

  The Falkland Islands government said in a release that if the families of the 18 newly identified Argentine soldiers might wish to visit the Falklands in March, “we would support this”, as part of the humanitarian obligations, in much the same way the Islands facilitated the DNA process.

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentina announces identification on 106th combatant buried in Falklands

  

  Remains of the 106th Argentine combatant buried in the Falkland Islands has been fully identified, announced on Thursday Argentina's Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj. The Argentine official said the name of the newly identified soldier will be released on Friday on request of the family who wished a day of intimacy, after 36 years of waiting news from their loved one.

• Monday, October 22nd 2018 - 06:42 UTC

  Identification process of Argentine remains in the Falklands will be praised by Red Cross in Geneva

  

  Next month, on the 21st the International Committee of the Red Cross will be holding a special ceremony in Geneva to acknowledge the identification process of the unknown Argentine combatants buried at the Argentine military cemetery in the Falkland Islands, a legacy of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict.

• Saturday, August 18th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  The 97th Argentine combatant buried in the Falklands has been identified

  

  The 97th Argentine combatant, whose remains are buried as an unknown soldier at the Argentine military cemetery, Falkland Islands, has been identified, according to the official announcement, on Friday, from the Argentine Human Rights Secretariat.

• Saturday, August 11th 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  Three more graves have names in the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin

  

  Argentina confirmed on Friday the identification of three more soldiers fallen during the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, and whose remains rest in the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  Argentine forensic team identify remains of another combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  The remains of yet another Argentine combatant fallen during the Falklands conflict in 1982, and buried at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin, have been identified bringing the number to 91, out of a total of 121 only a year ago.

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 22:16 UTC

  A humanitarian triumph in the aftermath of war

  

  By Nicholas Tozer -Buenos Aires.
  THE visit by over two hundred of Argentine next-of-kin to the Argentine Military Cemetery in Darwin in East Falkland earlier this week undoubtedly marks a new milestone in the so-often troubled relations between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands dispute.