Tag: Falkland/Malvinas

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 22:16 UTC

  A humanitarian triumph in the aftermath of war

  

  By Nicholas Tozer -Buenos Aires.
  THE visit by over two hundred of Argentine next-of-kin to the Argentine Military Cemetery in Darwin in East Falkland earlier this week undoubtedly marks a new milestone in the so-often troubled relations between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands dispute.

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 04:07 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine families visit graves of previously unidentified soldiers

  

  As readers of Penguin News will be aware, the project leading to the identification of 90 of the 121 previously unidentified soldiers whose graves are found in the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin faced many difficulties.

• Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 22:04 UTC

  Falklands ready for the Argentine next of kin visit

  

  The Falkland Islands government has announced details of next Monday's visit of relatives of the Argentine fallen soldiers whose remains, at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin, were recently identified by a special team led by the International Red Cross. The release states the following:

• Monday, February 26th 2018 - 06:40 UTC

  Falklands/Darwin cemetery operation: all ready for relatives day-trip, according to Argentina

  

  The trip of the relatives from the now identified 88 Argentine combatants buried at Darwin Cemetery, will be arriving to the Falkland Islands in three aircraft on 26th March at 09;30, and will be leaving by 16:00 hours of the same Monday, according to reports in the Argentine media. The Argentine-Armenian businessman Eduardo Eurnekian, who in 2004 paid for the Argentine Memorial at Darwin, will be financing the operation.

• Friday, February 23rd 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Falklands confirm March 26 visit of Argentine relatives of identified soldiers at Darwin cemetery

  

  Following work undertaken by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in identifying the remains of unidentified Argentine soldiers buried in the Falkland Islands Darwin cemetery, an Argentine private charter will be arriving at Mount Pleasant on Monday March 26.

• Wednesday, February 21st 2018 - 07:04 UTC

  Malvinas fallen relatives will be flying to Falklands at the end of March, says Argentine media

  

  The next of kin of 103 Argentine combatants fallen during the 1982 Falklands conflict will be travelling to the Islands next 26 March with the purpose of honoring the 88 unknown conscripts, buried at the Darwin cemetery, that were finally identified in a joint effort from the Argentine and British governments, the International Red Cross and consent from Falklands elected authorities.

• Wednesday, December 20th 2017 - 09:30 UTC

  EU support for Falklands at the UN in doubt, warns ex UK ambassador

  

  The European Union will refuse to back Britain in United Nations votes over the Falkland Islands after Brexit, a former ambassador has suggested. Other countries regarded the UK’s loss of influence since the Leave vote “as a shark would regard blood in the water”, Lord Hannay told a parliamentary inquiry.

• Tuesday, December 5th 2017 - 07:26 UTC

  Malvinas relatives of soldiers buried at Falklands Darwin cemetery are informed on the Red Cross report

  

  Two groups of four families of Malvinas fallen combatants will be informed on Tuesday of the results of the identification of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands Darwin cemetery, contained in the report delivered last Friday by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 06:38 UTC

  Argentina receives first four of twelve T-6C Texan II training aircraft

  

  The Argentine minister of defense Oscar Aguad headed the welcome ceremony for the first four of twelve last generation Beechcraft T-6C Texan II purchased by Argentina for the training of its military pilots, and which on Monday arrived at the Military Aviation School in Cordoba.

• Thursday, September 21st 2017 - 06:36 UTC

  Argentina claims at UN its Falklands/Malvinas “legitimate and imprescriptible” sovereignty rights

  

  Argentine vice-president Gabriela Michetti ratified before the United Nations General Assembly her country's “legitimate and imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the disputed Falkland/Malvinas Islands and made a new call on the United Kingdom to resume “bilateral negotiations”