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Montevideo, April 1st 2025 - 08:23 UTC

Tag: Darwin Cemetery

  • Monday, August 15th 2016 - 06:39 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas: Malcorra confirms new dialogue with UK in a raft of issues

    “We have a relation with the UK that goes beyond the Malvinas issue” but also a deep disagreement and president Macri has told this to ex PM David Cameron

    Argentina is at the beginning of a new dialogue on the Malvinas issue with the current UK government and this includes air links, hydrocarbons, identifying Argentine graves remains in Falklands, a possible meeting of the two countries' leaders in China, but none of this will happen overnight or make media headlines, anticipated foreign minister Susana Malcorra.

  • Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 06:19 UTC

    Falklands and bilateral agenda addressed by UK top official in Argentina

    The situation of forensic actions for the identification of Argentine combatants fallen who are buried in the Darwin cemetery, was also addressed in the meeting.

    The recently appointed UK Foreign Office Permanent Under Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service Sir Simon McDonald was received this week at the Argentine foreign ministry where he met with Deputy minister Carlos Foradori, and one of the several issues addressed was the forensic actions to help identify Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin cemetery, according to a release from Palacio San Martin.

  • Friday, July 1st 2016 - 07:11 UTC

    Falklands: Red Cross clear on Argentine families' wishes of identifying remains at Darwin cemetery

    The delegation were able to speak with Islanders: Stanley public meeting last night, (L to R) Mike Summers MLA and the ICRC delegations Edmond Corthesy, Laurent Corbaz, Morris Tidball-Binz and Oran

    Members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) currently visiting the Falkland Islands have stated they are quite clear on the wishes of the Argentine families, in relation to the potential future identification of remains of unknown Argentine soldiers in the Argentine memorial at Darwin.

  • Saturday, June 18th 2016 - 04:23 UTC

    Argentina “authorizes” Red Cross assessment mission to the Falklands

    The Argentine cemetery in Darwin which holds the remains of Argentine combatants from the 1982 conflict including 123 graves “only k nown by God”

    Argentina extended an authorization to the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, for a technical assessment mission to the Malvinas Islands at the end of the month, to help with the initiative for the identification of the remains of Argentine Armed Forces members buried in the Argentine cemetery of the Islands, according to a Friday official release from the Foreign ministry in Buenos Aires.

  • Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 20:35 UTC

    Falklands will receive a visit from the International Red Cross

    The Argentine Memorial in Darwin which holds the remains of Argentine combatants from the 1982 South Atlantic conflict

    A four person delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be visiting the Falkland Islands from 27 June to 2 July, as part of the humanitarian mission to help identify the mortal remains of unnamed Argentine combatants buried at the Argentine memorial in Darwin.

  • Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

    Project to identify Argentina soldiers' remains in Falklands, advancing says Clarin

    For the last two years we have been working on the project with the Ministry of Justice and we already have interviewed 81 families, said Luis Fondebrider (Pic EFE)

    Argentina and Great Britain are close to reaching an agreement on procedures for the identification of the Argentine combatants buried at the memorial in the Falkland Islands, reports Clarin, Apparently discussions are quite advanced and an Argentine proposal was replied by a Foreign Office counter proposal.

  • Monday, February 15th 2016 - 06:55 UTC

    Four Argentines plan to swim the Falklands' Sound on an “identity cause”

    “The humanitarian aspect has to be differentiated from politics. This humanitarian task, not political” argued Julio Aro.

    Four Argentine amateur swimmers have been training for over a year preparing for the crossing of the Falklands' Sound which separates the two main islands, West from East Falkland. The purpose of the crossing is to bring attention on the 'delayed' process of identifying the remains of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands under a headstone that reads “Argentine soldier, known only to God”.

  • Saturday, November 7th 2015 - 07:08 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas soldiers' remains: Argentine delegation meets Red Cross chief

    In Geneva, Daniel Filmus reiterated President Cristina Fernández 2012 request for the Red Cross to collaborate in the identification process of the remains.

    Argentina's Foreign Ministry Secretary for Malvinas affairs Ambassador Daniel Filmus, and Argentine ambassador before international organizations in Geneva, Alberto D'Alotto, met on Thursday with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, to address the issue of identifying the remains of 123 soldiers Argentine fallen during the South Atlantic conflict in 1982 and buried in the Argentine cemetery at Darwin, in the Falkland Islands.

  • Wednesday, November 4th 2015 - 06:45 UTC

    Falklands lawmaker meets Red Cross chief to discuss identification of Argentine soldiers remains

    The Argentine cemetery in Darwin holds 123 graves marked “An Argentine soldier known only by God”

    The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, met on Monday with representatives of the authorities of the United Kingdom and of the Falkland Islands to discuss a process seeking to identify the remains of a number of unidentified Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin cemetery in Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

  • Tuesday, October 27th 2015 - 06:36 UTC

    Falklands' “full agreement and involvement”, for any Argentine cemetery remains identification

    MLA Summers is scheduled to meet with the President of the ICRC, Mr. Peter Maurer, next week in Geneva, to seek assurances from the ICRC

    “If any identification is to take place of combatants buried in the Falkland Islands, it would have to be done with the full agreement and involvement of the Falkland Islands Government”, said the local government in a Monday release from Stanley.