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Montevideo, May 17th 2024 - 12:04 UTC

Tag: Falkland/Malvinas

  • Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 - 07:30 UTC

    Macri reaffirmed Malvinas sovereignty claim, despite mature and sensible relations with all countries

    “We held discussions with Prime Minister Cameron, but dialogue does not mean dropping our legitimate claim over Malvinas Islands sovereignty”.

    At the formal opening of the 134th congressional term on Tuesday, Argentine president Mauricio Macri said on Tuesday that his administration is building mature and sensible relations with all countries of the world, and Mercosur is a priority, but dialoguing with world leaders, including British PM David Cameron “does not mean giving up our sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands”.

  • Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 - 06:55 UTC

    Falklands soil and pebbles were received by the Pope from Argentine governor

    The official picture of the Argentine delegation headed by President Macri and ministers with Pope Francis in the Vatican . Gov Bertone on the left.

    Soil and pebbles from the Falkland Islands together with letters from Tierra del Fuego residents were received by Pope Francis during the recent visit of an Argentine delegation that included president Mauricio Macri, several ministers and three governors, one of them, Ms. Rosana Bertone from the most austral of Argentine provinces.

  • Thursday, February 25th 2016 - 06:57 UTC

    Hollande/Macri 'personal link' “will make things get moving and get done”

    Foreign minister Malcorra received President Hollande at the airport. The French president was delayed because his aircraft suffered mechanical problems in Peru

    The visit of French president Francois Hollande was described as “most positive” and this was reflected in the over twenty bilateral agreements signed in all fields, plus a very significant 'personal link' with his Argentine peer Mauricio Macri, said Susana Malcorra, foreign minister on Wednesday at the Casa Rosada.

  • Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:54 UTC

    Despite Malvinas, “we want to accord and collaborate with the UK” to the benefit of both countries

    Without giving up at all the Malvinas claim, we are willing to sit and dialogue and return to relations in other fields, such as the UK has with Spain”, said Macri

    Argentine president Mauricio Macri said he wants to reach an agreement with the UK that will enable collaboration in areas of mutual interest, despite the dispute over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, although 'we will never drop Argentina's historic claim on the issue'.

  • Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 07:01 UTC

    'A change in policy towards Malvinas', according to La Nacion

    “Despite a deep difference, all issues of common interest, must be included in the bilateral agenda, so that there is nothing that can block the capacity of holding that dialogue”

    Buenos Aires daily La Nacion dedicated its main Friday editorial to the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, (A change in the policy towards Malvinas), underlining the new Argentine government's position promoting bilateral relations on all issues with the UK, but never forgetting the 'deep difference' over the Islands.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 01:03 UTC

    Malvinas, a dream that can be rescued

    Dante Caputo was foreign minister between 1983 and 1989 under ex president Raúl Alfonsín

    Under this heading Dante Caputo, a former Argentine foreign minister (1983/89) with an impeccable domestic and international academic background addresses the 'Malvinas question' and proposes Argentina sets a 2033 target for a new attempt on the Islands, this time trying to convince the Falkland Islanders, and that in seventeen years time, the country is reliable and sovereignty discussions should then take place.

  • Tuesday, February 16th 2016 - 15:16 UTC

    Argentina rejoins the real world

    Regarding the Falkland/Malvinas Malcorra presented a cautiously optimistic view

    UN John J. Metzler(*) Reversing the trend of economic mismanagement, ending a fifteen year debt impasse with foreign lenders, calming a percolating political crisis over the disputed Falkland/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic, and overcoming the image of unpredictability, Argentina’s new conservative government faces serious obstacles in reintroducing Argentina to an often skeptical world.

  • 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”.

  • Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 23:11 UTC

    Montevideo-Stanley, an integrating and necessary air link

    Representative Jaime Trobo from Uruguay's senior opposition party, Partido Nacional

    By Jaime Trobo (*) - For some time now we have been arguing that Uruguay must strengthen its bonds and contacts with a neighboring territory, in the southern cone, part of our American continent, where families who arrived in our region during the first half of the XIX century live, and with whom those contacts, once very intense, have waned, particularly in the last decades.

  • Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 07:08 UTC

    London's position on Falklands 'unchanged', says UK ambassador in Spain

    “Our position regarding the (Falkland) Islands is very well known and is not going to change,” Manley said on Monday in conversation with the Spanish news agency.

    The United Kingdom will not change current policy on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, according to the UK Ambassador to Spain Simon J. Manley, confirming London's stance on the Islands sovereignty.