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Montevideo, July 27th 2025 - 07:28 UTC

Tag: Diana Mondino

  • Wednesday, July 23rd 2025 - 09:54 UTC

    Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister fails to meet Milei's standards

    Bustamante had been appointed during the tenure of the disgraced Diana Mondino

    Eduardo Bustamante resigned on Friday as Argentina's Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Deputy Foreign Minister), but the news would only become public on Tuesday when it appeared in the latest issue of the Official Gazette. At least that remains the official version. According to Clarín, he was sacked because he “didn't measure up” and “did things that strayed from the established line.” He had been appointed by former Foreign Minister Diana Mondino, who was also booted by President Javier Milei.

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  • Wednesday, July 16th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Falklands, Argentine opposition demands information on alleged Argentina, UK, US, NATO understanding

    Member of the Lower House, Roxana Monzon

    A recent article published by The Economist, and reproduced by MP, indicating a secret military dialogue between Argentina and UK, with the backing of the President Trump administration, which could lead to a softening of President Javier Milei’s Argentine claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in exchange for NATO military support, has triggered demands for answers in the Argentine Congress.

  • Saturday, February 22nd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Appointment of Argentine Ambassador to London causes stir among 1982 war veterans

    Mariana Plaza, Veterans of the 1982 War warned they would be on alert given the diplomat's appointment

    The Argentine Government's decision to promote Chargé d'Affaires Mariana Plaza to Ambassador in London has caused a stir among veterans of the 1982 South Atlantic War given the diplomat's stance in favor of dropping the country's sovereignty claims over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands.

  • Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 10:14 UTC

    Argentina recalls Ambassador in Montevideo due to “service reasons”

    García Moritán had been appointed in February last year under then-Foreign Minister Diana Mondino

    Ambassador Martín García Moritán has been removed from the Argentine mission in the Uruguayan capital and ordered back to Buenos Aires, according to Presidential Decree 29/2025 published Wednesday in the Official Gazette. The measure was adopted barely over a month before President-elect Yamandú Orsi's March 1 inauguration. The career diplomat had been appointed on Feb. 19, 2024.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 20:32 UTC

    South Atlantic and Falklands: a more constructive attitude from Argentina?

    RRS Sir David Attenborough in Montevideo

    Several events over the last weekend seem to indicate that the last September understanding between UK and Argentina regarding South Atlantic and Falkland Islands interests, agreed by Foreign Secretary David Lammy and then Foreign Affairs minister Diana Mondino is beginning to make sense.

  • Tuesday, November 5th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina's new FM sworn in under “the forces of heaven”

    Werthein will try to cut down the number of Ambassadors abroad as well as their wages

    Argentina's new Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein took his oath of office on the Torah on Monday. The choice of Jewish religious scripture was capitalized on by President Javier Milei, who made a few comments on the matter and told his new official that “the forces of heaven send you signs.”

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 22:38 UTC

    Milei sacks Mondino for not siding with US against Cuba

    Milei was hoping to align Buenos Aires with Washington and Tel Aviv but Argentina's diplomatic team at the UN stuck to old policies

    Argentine President Javier Milei sacked Foreign Ministry Diana Mondino Wednesday after Argentina voted in line with most countries at the United Nations (UN) against the US trade embargo on Cuba in force since 1962. The 32nd consecutive non-binding resolution in the same regard was passed with 187 votes in favor, two against (USA and Israel) and one abstention (Moldova). Mondino will be replaced by the current ambassador to the United States, Gerardo Werthein.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

    Mondino says conditions are in place to resume flights from Córdoba to Mount Pleasant

    “The mainland and the islands should have better connections,” insisted Mondino

    Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino insisted Monday in an interview published by the Financial Times that ”the conditions are in place to resume flights to the Malvinas (Falklands)” from Córdoba. These flights were halted during the COVID-19 pandemic and never resumed due to tensions between the former governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom, both of which are no longer in power.

  • Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 23:46 UTC

    Humanitarian Project in Falkland, Red Cross begins contacts in Buenos Aires

    Foreign minister Diana Mondino and Mr. Carbonnier with the Red Cross delegation at the Argentine Foreign ministry in Buenos Aires

    On Wednesday, October 16th, Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino received Gilles Carbonier, vice president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, to discuss the resumption of negotiations for the Third Plan of the Humanitarian Project, which is geared to the identification of Argentine combatants who fell in the Falklands during the South Atlantic conflict of 1982.

  • Friday, October 4th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

    Mondino hails UK-Mauritius understanding on Chagos

    Mondino dubbed the British Indian Ocean Territory of Chagos an “obsolete practice”

    Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino celebrated Thursday's announcement regarding the imminent handover of the British Indian Ocean Territory of Chagos to Mauritius after a dispute of nearly six decades and hinted that a similar path should be followed to ”recover the Malvinas (Falkland).”

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