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Montevideo, November 27th 2024 - 16:40 UTC

Tag: Falkland Islands

  • Friday, April 4th 2014 - 03:05 UTC

    US Falklands' policy 'disappointing' but, one of many issues of US/UK special relationship

    The report also emphasizes the 'spirit of realism' from British PM David Cameron foreign policy

    The United States failure to recognize the right of the Falkland Islands to national self-determination is “disappointing”, reads a British House of Commons inquiry into the health of the so-called special relationship between the UK and the US. The report was released a day after the 32nd anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the South Atlantic islands (2 April 1982) and highlights London's frustration on the issue.

  • Friday, April 4th 2014 - 02:41 UTC

    “Falklands nuclear missiles turned out to be penguins”

    King Penguins ('nuclear missiles') in a beach near their rookery

    Falkland Islanders replied with a picture of King penguins to Argentine President Cristina Fernandez claims that the Falklands had become NATO's largest base in the South Atlantic and was equipped with missiles that could reach any of the region's countries, and also had “nuclear weapons”.

  • Thursday, April 3rd 2014 - 07:36 UTC

    Queen Elizabeth II meets the Pope at private audience in the Vatican

    The Queen welcomed John Paul II in 1982

    Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will meet with Pope Francis at a private audience in the Vatican on Thursday afternoon. The Queen, who’ll be accompanied by her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, will also have a private encounter with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano during the one day visit to Rome.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 21:25 UTC

    Cristina Fernández blasts UK and NATO on Malvinas invasion anniversary

    The Argentine president during her 30 minute speech at Malvinas Hall next to her full cabinet

    Argentine President Cristina Fernández on the 32nd anniversary of the Malvinas Islands invasion by Argentine forces which triggered war (and defeat) with the UK, questioned the British government for not abiding by UN resolutions calling for Falklands sovereignty talks and suggested UK should be less involved in wars and more in looking after its own people.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 20:03 UTC

    Apostle Matthew and the Falklands/Malvinas controversy

    Contrary to the Falklands, Argentina was a vast territory with a significant indigenous population

    A Falkland Islands supporter has sent the following caricature referred to the alleged “double standards” to which Argentine president Cristina Fernández and former Senator Daniel Filmus, head of the Foreign Ministry Malvinas Affairs office, repeatedly invoke when discussing the Falklands/Malvinas dispute and the policy of ignoring the Islands population and their rights.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 19:48 UTC

    Falklands' MLA Short to Cristina Fernandez: “how low can you get”

    “Rather sick, the celebration of a brutal invasion of innocent civilians”, twitted MLA Short

    An exchange of tweets between Falkland Islands elected member of the Legislative Assembly Gavin Short and Argentine official Daniel Filmus has caused uproar in Argentina because the MLA describes as “rather sick” the “celebration of a brutal invasion of innocent civilians”.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 08:14 UTC

    Malvinas bilateral sovereignty negotiations are 'inevitable' because of growing world consensus

    Filmus recalls its fifty years since the famous UN resolution calling for bilateral dialogue on the Malvinas issue

    Bilateral negotiations with the UK over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty are 'inevitable' because of the growing international pressure and consensus among countries, forecasted Daniel Filmus head of the Argentine Foreign ministry Malvinas Islands Affairs Office. His statement comes on the 32nd anniversary of the Argentine military invasion on the Falklands in 1982.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 07:43 UTC

    UK interest in the Malvinas is '100% economic', claims Argentine official

    Daniel Filmus argues that without support from the continent, looking for oil offshore Malvinas won't be easy

    Britain's interest in the Malvinas Islands is “100% economic” and if hydrocarbons exploration in the waters surrounding the archipelago advances “we could be facing a major ecologic disaster”, said Daniel Filmus, head of the Argentine Foreign Ministry Malvinas Affairs Secretariat.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 07:30 UTC

    “We planted between 15.000 and 20.000 antipersonnel and antitank mines” in Malvinas

    Some of the mine fields surrounding Stanley

    In a rare interview, the Argentine Colonel who was responsible for placing mines in the occupied Falkland Islands in 1982 as part of the defense strategy against the advancing British forces, admits that between 15.000 and 20.000 of antipersonnel and anti tank explosives were planted, but also claims some stretches of the Islands' coast already had mines which had been placed by the British.

  • Monday, March 31st 2014 - 15:27 UTC

    Argentina lobbies for Malvinas sovereignty claim in East Timor

    Deputy minister Zuaín headed the delegation that visited East Timor

    A high level Argentine diplomatic mission visited last week Timor-Leste, in the Asia Pacific area to reaffirm close political, economic and cooperation links between the two countries, and confirm support for Argentina's demand for Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty negotiations with the UK.