Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 23:55 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas war experience conference forcibly cancelled at Buenos Aires college

An open conference by two Argentine Air Force pilots at an elite college in Buenos Aires had to be suspended following “ill-treatment” and overall questioning of Argentine armed forces conduct by the students and apparently one of the parents that were also invited to the event.
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Saturday, June 29th 2019 - 09:56 UTC
“Now I only have to recover Malvinas” says Argentine foreign minister after the milestone Mercosur/EU accord

“Now I only have to recover the Malvinas Islands” said Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie, following the trade and association agreement reached on Friday in Brussels between Mercosur and the European Union.
Friday, June 28th 2019 - 21:07 UTC
Falklands: UK, Argentina and Red Cross discussing further remains identifications

Argentina, United Kingdom and the International Committee of the Red Cross are advancing in negotiations to extend the current agreement for the identification of Argentine combatants fallen during the South Atlantic conflict and buried in the Falkland Islands at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin.
Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina claims Boris Johnson is willing to dialogue on the Falklands issue

Boris Johnson, the leading candidate in the current process to replace Theresa May as UK prime minister is open to dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas issue, said Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie during a meeting with the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:43 UTC
Buenos Aires ceremony to recall Malvinas rights Affirmation Day

Argentina commemorated on Monday in downtown Buenos Aires the Day of the Affirmation of Argentine rights over the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands in a ceremony to honor the former combatants of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 07:58 UTC
Falklands: another Argentine combatant remains identified

Another Argentine combatant fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and buried in the Falkland Islands, has been identified, which brings the number of those still without a name to nine out of a total of 122 graves.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 07:18 UTC
Argentina recalls the Day of Affirmation of its Rights over the South Atlantic Islands

Argentina recalled on Monday, 10 June, a new anniversary of the creation in 1829 of the “Political and Military command headquarters of the Malvinas Islands and adjacencies to Cape Horn in the Atlantic Sea”, and which has been incorporated to the official calendar as the Day of Affirmation of Argentine Rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and its surrounding maritime spaces.
Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 14:58 UTC
Argentina does not recognize UK as a coastal state but will jointly address high seas catches in the South Atlantic

Foreign minister Jorge Faurie strongly denied in Congress on Wednesday that the Argentine government was ready to “handover” the disputed Malvinas Islands to the British, and likewise defended the current proximity policy of president Mauricio Macri administration towards the South Atlantic issue.
Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:58 UTC
Eighteen Argentine military officers face torture charges from the Malvinas war

Next June/July eighteen former Argentine officers will be facing formal torture charges, allegedly committed against conscripts during the Falklands conflict 37 years ago, and twelve years since the beginning of the official investigation by the Tierra del Fuego federal court.
Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 09:34 UTC
“Malvinas Islands will finally be Argentine, through diplomacy”

“The Malvinas Islands will finally, through diplomacy, be Argentine”, said Argentina's Defense minister Oscar Aguad on Tuesday at the main ceremony on the start of the 37th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict with the United Kingdom.