Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

Tuesday, January 29th 2013 - 06:05 UTC
Raul Castro assumes CELAC chair calling for integration and independence from the US

Cuba formally assumed Monday the presidency of the Community of Latinamerican and Caribbean States during the group’s summit in Chile calling for regional integration and independence from the United States.
Tuesday, January 29th 2013 - 06:02 UTC
UK wants to control South Atlantic access and resources, claims Argentina

Argentina claimed at the CELAC summit in Chile that the UK has converted the Falkland Islands into one of the “most militarized territories in the world” with the sole purpose of exploiting the natural resources of the Islands and control access to Antarctica.
Tuesday, January 29th 2013 - 05:58 UTC
Letter from Chavez calls for regional unit, supports Cuba and condemns UK on the Falklands

Vice-president Nicolas Maduro, read an eleven page letter he said was written by ailing President Hugo Chavez in which the Venezuelan leader calls for Latinamerican unit, praises Cuba’s chairmanship of CELAC group and takes time to support Argentina’s claims over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.
Friday, January 18th 2013 - 06:12 UTC
Argentina thanks Indonesia for support on Falklands issue and blasts multilateral organizations

President Cristina Fernandez thanked Indonesia for the “permanent support” extended to Argentina in the “Malvinas cause” and reiterated that Argentina is only asking for the UK to respect and abide the United Nations resolution, but at the same time attacked multilateral organizations such as the UN and WTO for “favouring the great powers”.
Thursday, January 10th 2013 - 04:06 UTC
Cristina Fernandez targets UK ‘threats’ to keep escalating the Falklands’ dispute

Argentine president Cristina Kirchner targeted the UK for “threatening” to come “to militarize and invade our Malvinas Islands” following the announcement that an additional 150 British soldiers are been sent to the Falklands and PM David Cameron recent warnings on support of the Islands.
Wednesday, January 9th 2013 - 05:12 UTC
The 2012/13 cruise season: a new case of Argentine intolerance towards Malvinas

Most probably this cruise season 2012/2013 will be remembered not for the record number of calls or visitors (estimated in half a million) but as a new case of Argentine intolerance with the Malvinas Islands in centre stage, writes La Nacion columnist Emiliano Galli.
Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 22:04 UTC
Argentine president letter to PM Cameron demanding return of Falklands, “a sign of “profound weakness”

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez has been left “frustrated” by the refusal of other Latin American nations to back Argentina’s long-standing claim to the Falkland Islands, Klaus Dodds, Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London, said.
Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 00:31 UTC
Cristina Fernandez asks Cameron to return the Falklands “forcibly stripped” in 1833

Prime Minister David Cameron must return the Falkland Islands to Argentina, 180 years after the territories were “forcibly stripped” from Buenos Aires, President Cristina Fernandez has claimed in UK newspaper adverts scheduled to be published on Thursday and which has been anticipated.
Friday, December 28th 2012 - 05:03 UTC
PM Thatcher “never, never expected” Argentina to invade the Falklands; “it was such a stupid thing to do”

The 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina caught PM Margaret Thatcher by surprise, newly released government papers have shown. The then-prime minister only saw it was likely after getting “raw intelligence” two days before the Argentines landed.
Monday, December 17th 2012 - 06:29 UTC
In January begins third phase of Argentine landmine clearance in the Falklands

The third phase of explosive ordnance and landmine clearance in the Falkland Islands is scheduled to begin next January and extend until March 2013 and is programmed to concentrate in the surrounding of the capital Stanley.