Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• Thursday, March 14th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  Argentine foreign minister receives next of kin who returned from “our Malvinas”

  

  “I imagine you have gone through moments of great emotion in the Islands, next to the graves with the 112 full names, which until now remained unidentified”, Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie was quoted in an official release, on receiving the delegation of next of kin, on their return trip from the Falkland Islands, Wednesday evening.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 10:54 UTC

  Falklands trip: “strongest experience of my life; it opened my head in several aspects”

  

  “An incredible experience, the strongest of my life, it opened my head in several aspects”, said Nicolás Aguiar, the Argentine 24 year old international-relations student who spent a week in the Falkland Islands as a guest of the local government.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Number of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands and identified now total 110

  

  The number of Argentine unknown soldiers buried in the Falkland Islands has fallen by three as those identified and with full names now total 110 out of the original 121/122 remains buried inat the Argentine military cemetery close Darwin.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 08:28 UTC

  Second humanitarian visit to Falklands confirmed by Buenos Aires and UK ambassador

  

  The Argentine government has confirmed that in coming days it will be meeting with Malvinas families and UK authorities to organize another humanitarian trip to the Falkland Islands so that the next of kin of the 18 recently identified Argentine soldiers can visit, honor and pray at their graves in the Argentine military cemetery near Darwin.

• Friday, January 4th 2019 - 06:02 UTC

  Falklands: Argentina calls for sovereignty negotiations as it recalls 3 January 1833

  

  In an official release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentina recalled that 186 years ago, on 3 January 1833, “UK military forces illegally occupied and usurped the Malvinas Islands and adjoining maritime spaces in the South Atlantic”.

• Saturday, December 29th 2018 - 07:49 UTC

  Identification Plan of Argentine remains in the Falklands to be extended

  

  Argentina and the United Kingdom are to discuss the extension of the current Humanitarian Project Plan to identify Argentine combatant remains buried in the Falkland Islands, to include possible errors in the names of some graves, and other burial sites such as Pebbles island, according to a report from Martin Dinatale published in the news agency Infobae.

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentina announces identification on 106th combatant buried in Falklands

  

  Remains of the 106th Argentine combatant buried in the Falkland Islands has been fully identified, announced on Thursday Argentina's Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj. The Argentine official said the name of the newly identified soldier will be released on Friday on request of the family who wished a day of intimacy, after 36 years of waiting news from their loved one.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 03:57 UTC

  Falklands says a decision on a second flight stopover in Argentina “has yet to be made”

  

  * MLA Elsby anticipates the public will be engaged on the final proposal. A final decision on where in Argentina a second commercial flight from the Falklands to a third country in the region will land “has yet to be made,” assured Member of Legislative Assembly Barry Elsby on Thursday.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 10:00 UTC

  Falklands second commercial flight agreed: Sao Paulo with a stopover at Cordoba, says Ambito Financiero

  

  The second commercial flight from the Falkland Islands to a third country in the region with a stopover in an Argentine airport has been agreed, according to reports in Ambito Financiero, a Buenos Aires financial daily.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2018 - 13:29 UTC

  Combatant buried in the Falklands is taken back by the family to Argentina

  

  Next 5 December for the first time in 36 years the remains of an Argentine combatant buried in the Falkland Islands will be returned to the province of Córdoba where his family lives. Air Force Captain Luis Darío José Castagnari remains lie in a grave at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin, and in a special ceremony, with members of his family, will be flown back to Argentina.