Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  ARA Libertad to expose UK's 'disproportionate and provocative' military presence in Malvinas

  

  Argentina plans to reaffirm its sovereign rights over the Falkland Islands and expose the 'disproportionate' British military presence in the Islands when the instruction tall ship ARA Libertad calls on different ports of the world.

• Monday, April 18th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Malvinas and joint condemnation of Russia, the trade off that never was at the EuroLat assembly

  

  Last week the European-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, EuroLat, met in Buenos Aires, hosted by Argentina, and the final declaration included as normally happens in this kind of meetings compromises agreed beforehand.

• Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  EuroLat joins calls for resumption of dialogue between Argentina and UK

  

  The European-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) closed its Buenos Aires convention Thursday with a statement from both co-Speakers calling for the resumption of dialogue between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falklands/Malvinas Question, in accordance with the resolutions of the United Nations.

• Sunday, April 3rd 2022 - 11:41 UTC

  Malvinas meant the end of the “military party” - Argentine VP stresses

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa presided over Congress' ceremony Saturday marking the 40th anniversary of the Falklands / Malvinas war.

• Saturday, February 26th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Proposal for symbolic Malvinas empty bench in Argentine Lower House, 'until the legitimate occupant arrives'

  

  A group of Argentine opposition lawmakers is sponsoring a bill to create a bench in the Lower House dedicated to the Malvinas Islands, which will remain symbolically empty until its “legitimate occupant” finally arrives.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Fifty years since the air link between Falkland Islands and Comodoro Rivadavia

  

  Half a century ago, on 12 January 1972, a seaplane from the Argentine Air Force landed in Stanley harbor establishing the first regular flight between Comodoro Rivadavia and the Falkland Islands. From then onwards, ”sanitary, passenger and general cargo (mail, fresh food, and medicines) became regular flights”.

• Friday, January 7th 2022 - 11:52 UTC

  Argentina, Cuba sign bilateral deals to foster food sovereignty

  

  Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and Santiago Cafiero, Foreign Ministers of Cuba and Argentina respectively, Thursday signed in Buenos Aires a bilateral cooperation agreement for Agricultural Development “to promote the food sovereignty of Cuba,” it was announced.

• Tuesday, January 4th 2022 - 05:44 UTC

  The “Expulsion Myth” – Argentina’s Greatest Historical Falsehood

  

  Falkland Islands Association - Britain did not expel an Argentine population in January 1833 when Britain re-asserted its sovereignty in the Falklands. But no piece of Argentine propaganda has been more successful than its falsehood that Britain expelled an “Argentine population”.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina's National Sovereignty Day: “We won't trade the islands for vaccines,” President says

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday insisted the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands belonged to his country, which would never trade them “neither for vaccines nor for debts.”

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Red Cross presents final report after six Argentine soldiers are identified

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross presented on Monday, in Geneva, its final report on forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.