Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• Monday, August 5th 2013 - 15:55 UTC

  Falklands send condolences to family and friends of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward

  

  In a brief message Gilbert House, seat of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly made public its condolences to the family and friends of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward who was commander of the carrier force sent to recover the Falklands invaded and occupied by Argentine forces.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2013 - 02:49 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez will chair Security Council debate on UN relations with regional organizations

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will be chairing next Tuesday a meeting of the United Nations Security Council that will be addressing the relations of Latam and Caribbean regional and subregional organizations with UN in helping prevent conflicts and restore peace, was announced by the Argentine ambassador Maria Cristina Perceval.

• Friday, July 26th 2013 - 01:57 UTC

  Malvinas: Uruguay politicians honoured for having volunteered to fight next to Argentina in 1982

  

  Two Uruguayan politicians, one from the ruling coalition and the other from the main opposition National party will be honoured with a medal by Argentina for their unlimited support to the Malvinas cause, announced the Argentine ambassador in Montevideo, Dante Dovena.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2013 - 07:41 UTC

  Falklands: Timerman accuses Clarin of sponsoring the referendum and Foreign Office strategy

  

  Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman in a piece published in the pro-government Pagina 12 accused Buenos Aires daily Clarin of silencing, distorting, hiding and even lying about events in Argentina and particularly regarding the Malvinas colonial issue and in the March referendum ‘of playing to the Foreign Office strategy’.

• Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:22 UTC

  Falklands: Ambassador Castro renews sovereignty claims and blasts the US for spying

  

  Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom Alicia Castro renewed Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the Falkland Islands and put the Edward Snowden spy row on London’s table: “We are free nations that neither need nor want to be spied on,” Castro warned.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 16:19 UTC

  Falklands’ people happy exercising self-determination and with ‘current relationship with UK’

  

  Falkland Islands representatives told the Special Decolonization Committee that under UN resolutions non self governing territories are entitled to exercise self determination and self government and C24 does not have the responsibility to judge on that right. Likewise the Falklands’ representatives again invited C24 to visit the Islands (seventh time) but with no reply.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 02:56 UTC

  Malvinas C24 Argentina petitioners: Maria Angelia Vernet and Alejandro Betts

  

  Maria Angelica Vernet and Falklands’ born Alejandro Betts will be Argentina’s petitioners at Thursday’s June 20 United Nations Decolonization Committee session in New York when the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute will be addressed.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 00:14 UTC

  India-Argentina pledge to improve trade; Timerman thanks Delhi support on Malvinas dispute

  

  India and Argentina pledged to improve trade relations, particularly in “non-traditional areas” said Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman alongside his counterpart, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, at the end of his visit to India. Timerman also thanked New Delhi for its support in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 07:33 UTC

  Falklands’ C24 debate: Timerman heads Argentine delegation and includes two governors

  

  The governors, from Tierra del Fuego and Santa Fe will be part of the delegation when the Argentine presentation before the UN Decolonisation Committee on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute, next Thursday June 20 in New York.

• Saturday, June 15th 2013 - 13:56 UTC

  Falklands: “British sovereignty over the Islands as such, is not accepted by the European Parliament”

  

  “British sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands as such is not accepted by the European Parliament”, according to a visiting delegation of EU lawmakers who met with their Argentine peers in Buenos Aires.