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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 18:40 UTC

Tag: Diana Mondino

  • 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).”

  • Monday, September 30th 2024 - 21:03 UTC

    Criminal complaint filed against Mondino for Lammy deal

    Carreras argued that the joint communiqué between Lammy and Mondino was instead an Agreement that should have gone through Congress

    Lawyer Valeria Carreras has filed a criminal complaint against Foreign Minister Diana Mondino for alleged “breach of official duties” and “abuse of authority” after the understanding she signed with the United Kingdom to renew the monthly flight between Córdoba and Mount Pleasant, which had been suspended under former President Alberto Fernández when the Foradori-Duncan agreement was denounced.

  • Saturday, September 28th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    The Malvinas Question triggers Ladies in Anger

    The official picture of last Tuesday meeting between Ms Mondino and David Lammy

    The South Atlantic understanding, (and by extension to the Falkland Islands), agreed this week between the Argentine foreign minister and the UK foreign secretary has triggered quite strong reactions, reflecting an atmosphere of disarray in the Argentine political system.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 11:24 UTC

    Foreign Office statement, UK/Argentina made progress on different South Atlantic issues regarding

    Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Argentine FM Diana Mondino, met in New York on 24 September and made progress towards a broad agenda covering different issues relating to the South Atlantic.

    Looking forward to a new era of constructive cooperation within the bilateral relationship, characterized by improved dialogue and confidence-building measures, the UK Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina, Diana Mondino, met in New York on 24 September and made progress towards a broad agenda covering different issues relating to the South Atlantic. It is agreed that the formula on the safeguards of sovereignty in paragraph 2 of the Joint Statement of 19 October 1989 applies to this agenda and its outcomes.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 01:40 UTC

    Falklands support of new cooperation agreement between UK and Argentina

    Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Diana Mondino

    On Tuesday, 24th September, following a meeting of Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Argentine foreign affairs minister Diana Mondino at the United Nations, Falklands openly supported the new era of constructive cooperation between UK and Argentina and released the following,

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