Tag: Darwin Cemetery

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:56 UTC

  Falklands Darwin cemetery: Red Cross identification mission begins round of talks in Argentina

  

  A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross is scheduled to begin this Monday a round of contacts in Buenos Aires related to the Humanitarian Project Plan for the identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands cemetery combatants identification: Red Cross delegation expected in Buenos Aires

  

  An advance mission from the International Committee of the Red Cross is expected in Buenos Aires next week to iron out details of the DNA process to be implemented for the identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried in the Falkland Islands at the Darwin cemetery. The news was advanced in the Buenos Aires media.

• Wednesday, May 10th 2017 - 08:44 UTC

  Malvinas Families want Argentina to resume next of kin trips to Darwin cemetery

  

  The Malvinas Families Commission have requested foreign minister Susana Malcorra for the Argentine state to resume the organization and financing of trips of relatives to the Darwin cemetery where the Argentine soldiers fallen during the 1982 conflict are buried, reports Clarin.

• Saturday, April 29th 2017 - 08:06 UTC

  Falklands: 95 Families have consented to ID tests of Darwin cemetery remains; task should begin 19 June

  

  The Argentine foreign ministry confirmed that 95 families from the 123 Argentine unknown combatants buried at Falkland Islands' Darwin Cemetery have consented to the identification of remains, a task to be undertaken by the International Red Cross, allegedly beginning next 19 June.

• Friday, April 28th 2017 - 09:36 UTC

  “The future of the Falklands depends on the Islanders, and that is what is most important”

  

  British ambassador in Argentina Mark Kent has said that conflict policies lead nowhere, Argentina and the UK have different positions on the Falkland Islands sovereignty, but it is up to the Islanders to decide on their future. Anyhow bilateral relations have significantly improved with great prospects for trade, investments and cooperation.

• Monday, March 20th 2017 - 07:38 UTC

  Malvinas Families repudiate Peace Nobel Perez Esquivel on his return from Falklands

  

  Argentine Veterans and relatives of fallen in Malvinas had a surprise for Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Perez Esquivel and his party of fourteen, including a founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, when they landed in Buenos Aires airport after spending a week in the Falkland Islands where they travelled with a “peace, dialogue and sovereignty” message to the Islanders.

• Tuesday, March 14th 2017 - 06:49 UTC

  Argentina protests with Brasilia over Falklands RAF flights calling in Brazil

  

  The Argentine government reiterated on Monday its disappointment with the UK military flights linking with the Falkland Islands and calling in Brazil. “We made a complaint to Brazil regarding flights and we have also instructed our embassy in the UK”, said Malcorra speaking to the media.

• Saturday, March 11th 2017 - 07:26 UTC

  Argentina tells Malvinas' Families and Veterans that identification process in Darwin cemetery is “strictly humanitarian”

  

  Argentine foreign ministry officials reiterated to representatives from the Malvinas Fallen Relatives Commission and the Confederation of Malvinas Combatants that the initiative to identify Argentine unknown soldiers buried in the Darwin cemetery in the Falklands, is strictly humanitarian.

• Saturday, March 11th 2017 - 07:09 UTC

  Argentine Nobel Peace wants to dialogue with “Malvinas inhabitants”, ruled by a “colonial government”

  

  An Argentine delegation linked to human rights groups is en route to the Falkland Islands with a “message of dialogue, peace and demilitarization”, hoping to meet Islanders, express support for the identification process of unknown combatants buried in Darwin cemetery, collect evidence on abuses committed by Argentine officers during the 1982 conflict, but also claim sovereignty and reject “militarization” of the Islands.

• Friday, March 10th 2017 - 06:23 UTC

  Argentine delegation reminded Falkland Islanders have rights

  

  A remainder of the rights of Falkland Islanders has been included in an open letter from the Falklands Government to a delegation of Argentines due to arrive Saturday. They are part of the Comisión Provincial de la Memoria CPM, an independent non-governmental organization.