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Montevideo, June 27th 2025 - 01:42 UTC

Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

  • Tuesday, November 7th 2017 - 08:59 UTC

    Argentina surfaces three Spanish Malvinas documents from 1767

    Senator Cobos is no stranger to the Falklands, he visited them in June/July 2014, before launching a presidential bid

    Argentine former vice president and currently Senator of the ruling coalition, Julio Cobos has announced the discovery of three letters dated 1767, revealing an exchange of information between then Buenos Aires city governor, and Felipe Ruiz Puente, described as the first Malvinas Islands governor. At the time was part of the Spanish colonial empire.

  • Wednesday, October 18th 2017 - 11:47 UTC

    Identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried in Falklands advancing according to agenda

    “It is the first time ICRC is involved in such a sophisticated operation, in the framework of an international diplomatic agreement”, said Laurent Corbaz

    The forensic team from the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, involved in the Falklands Humanitarian Project is currently analyzing the DNA samples taken from the Argentine soldiers remains buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Islands, and defining strategies that should allow the delivery of results to the Argentine, and United Kingdom governments.

  • Wednesday, October 11th 2017 - 15:17 UTC

    UK reaffirms commitment to Falklands sovereignty; Argentina insists self-determination not applicable to Malvinas

    Stephen Hickey underlined the UK's longstanding commitment to the people of the Falklands remained unchanged

    The United Kingdom had no doubt about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Islands, South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas, and there could be no dialogue on sovereignty over them unless its people so wished, the UK representative Stephen Hickey said at the United Nations Fourth Committee meetings this week.

  • Wednesday, July 19th 2017 - 08:55 UTC

    Red Cross expected to explain how Falklands' Darwin cemetery pictures were taken

    The cemetery holds 237 graves, of which 123 unidentified. 95 Argentine families have volunteered to have DNA samples taken

    Controversy has erupted in Argentina following the release in Facebook of clandestine pictures from the current exhumation works at the Darwin Cemetery in the Falklands with the purpose of identifying the remains of Argentine combatants in at least 95 graves with tombstone reading, “Argentine soldier, known only to God”.

  • Monday, July 3rd 2017 - 08:46 UTC

    ICRC work in the Falklands/Malvinas continues as planned

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) forensics team working to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery has reported good progress.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2017 - 01:53 UTC

    UN C24 calls for negotiations over Falkland Islands sovereignty between Argentina, UK yet again

    Falklands MLA Mike Summers OBE and Ian Hansen MLA shake hands with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie (Pic Adriana Groisman Clarin)

    President Mauricio Macri's administration Friday renewed Argentina's case before the United Nations' Decolonization Committee in New York to bring the United Kingdom to discuss sovereignty over the Falkland, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and their surrounding maritime spaces.

  • Monday, June 19th 2017 - 12:47 UTC

    Identification of Argentine soldiers buried in Falklands begins

    Darwin Cemetery will be close since today until the completion of the works.

    As per the agreement between Argentina and Great Britain, the task is carried out by a mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Relatives of the fallen feel mixed emotions.Thirty-five years after the war and after prolonged negotiations between the two governments, the ICRC mission is already on the islands to begin as soon as weather permits it the exhumation of 123 Of the 237 graves under a plaque “Argentine Soldier only known to God.”

  • Sunday, June 18th 2017 - 16:06 UTC

    Ambassador Kent: “Bilateral ties improving but Falkland islanders will define their own future”

    Ambassador Mark Kent: “We do not see Argentina as an enemy”

    The British ambassador to Argentina, Mark Kent, underlined the United Kingdom's intentions to “improve” bilateral relations and admitted a meeting between President Mauricio Macri and Prime Minister Theresa May within the framework of the G20 was possible. However, he made it clear that with regards to the Falkland Islands question “the islanders have the right to define their own future.”

  • Sunday, June 18th 2017 - 10:52 UTC

    Falkland Islands: New terminal in 2½ years

    THE air terminal at Mount Pleasant is likely to be subject to civilianisation in approximately nine months, and be rebuilt, or extended or refurbished in two and a half years, stated the Chief Executive Barry Rowland at the public meeting on Monday.

  • Saturday, June 10th 2017 - 10:26 UTC

    Argentina invites UK to resume Falklands question negotiations

    June 10, is the Day of Affirmation of Argentine Rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and surrounding maritime spaces.

    Argentina has again invited the UK to resume negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas question, following on UN assembly resolutions, and urges an end to unilateral activities related to exploration and exploitation of renewable and non renewable natural resources in the disputed area, as well as to the British military presence in the South Atlantic.