Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• Friday, April 3rd 2015 - 06:03 UTC

  Argentina poses no military threat to the Malvinas Islands. So why is the UK ratcheting up tension?

  

  The following column by Alicia Castro (*) was published 02 April by the Independent - On 24 March, the day that a debate was held in Parliament over the increase in defense expenditure for the Malvinas Islands, Argentina was commemorating the anniversary of the 1976 military coup.

• Friday, April 3rd 2015 - 03:28 UTC

  Argentina ‘malvinazing’ history through ‘mature nationalism’ says president on Malvinas war 33rd anniversary

  

  Argentina is ‘malvinazing’ (Malvinas) its history, but not through chauvinist patriotism but mature nationalism that seeks international law and peace to recover sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, said president Cristina Fernandez during the 33rd anniversary of the beginning of the South Atlantic conflict on 2 April 1982.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Argentine president main speaker at Falklands war ceremony and enshrinement of “Our Lady of Malvinas”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will be the main speaker at the commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the start of the Falklands/Malvinas war, to be held April second in the city of Ushuaia and which will also include a political-religious ceremony.

• Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 09:47 UTC

  Falklands' conflict hypothesis: Argentine Mirages are banned from flying on cloudy days

  

  The Argentine government and media agree that the country does not have the military capacity to attack the Falkland Islands as feared by Britain. A report in daily La Nacion points out the Argentine armed forces lack landing crafts, troop transport vessels and even the Mirage fighter planes are banned from flying on cloudy days because of repeated problems with their instruments.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 06:39 UTC

  Argentina as a 'live threat' to the Falklands, triggers fury from Buenos Aires

  

  The government of President Cristina Fernandez accused the United Kingdom of using an alleged Argentine threat to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in order to boost its military budget, while also claiming that the archipelago has been turned into an electoral campaign issue.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 06:27 UTC

  Falklands: no surge in troop numbers but upgraded infrastructure and £180 million in ten years

  

  United Kingdom Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has dispelled media reports suggesting a surge in troop numbers was likely. Fallon on Tuesday outlined £180 million infrastructure spending plans, but told MPs numbers would remain at around 1,200 military and civilian personnel.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2015 - 05:48 UTC

  “Our Lady of Malvinas” arrives in Antarctica; she will be enshrined in Ushuaia on 2 April

  

  The replica of an image at the Argentine Darwin cemetery and which was blessed by Pope Francis arrived this week to Argentina's Antarctica base Marambio, the last leg of its passage to Tierra del Fuego and austral islands, “where it will enshrined on 2 April, on a new anniversary of the Malvinas war”, according to the country's official news agency Telam.

• Friday, March 6th 2015 - 06:56 UTC

  Argentine central bank chairman defends the 50-peso Malvinas bill

  

  Argentina's Central Bank Governor Alejandro Vanoli defended the new 50-peso banknote which features the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, after it was belittled by the a minister of state at the British Foreign Office.

• Wednesday, March 4th 2015 - 22:14 UTC

  Argentina/Chile celebrate Tierra del Fuego mines-free; Rossi claims UK impedes mine-clearance in Falklands

  

  Argentina and Chile defense ministers, Agustín Rossi and Jorge Burgos, attended this week a historic ceremony in which they signed a document declaring Tierra del Fuego free of anti-personal mines. During the meeting minister Rossi blamed the UK for not allowing Argentina to clear the mines in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2015 - 22:37 UTC

  Malvinas' 50-Peso bill, an Argentine stunt, says Foreign Office minister

  

  Britain derided a new Argentine banknote featuring the disputed Falkland Islands as a stunt on Tuesday and said it had no intention of discussing sovereignty over the archipelago with Buenos Aires.