Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• Friday, January 7th 2022 - 11:52 UTC

  Argentina, Cuba sign bilateral deals to foster food sovereignty

  

  Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and Santiago Cafiero, Foreign Ministers of Cuba and Argentina respectively, Thursday signed in Buenos Aires a bilateral cooperation agreement for Agricultural Development “to promote the food sovereignty of Cuba,” it was announced.

• Tuesday, January 4th 2022 - 05:44 UTC

  The “Expulsion Myth” – Argentina’s Greatest Historical Falsehood

  

  Falkland Islands Association - Britain did not expel an Argentine population in January 1833 when Britain re-asserted its sovereignty in the Falklands. But no piece of Argentine propaganda has been more successful than its falsehood that Britain expelled an “Argentine population”.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina's National Sovereignty Day: “We won't trade the islands for vaccines,” President says

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday insisted the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands belonged to his country, which would never trade them “neither for vaccines nor for debts.”

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Red Cross presents final report after six Argentine soldiers are identified

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross presented on Monday, in Geneva, its final report on forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

• Monday, September 20th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Celac supports Argentina's stance regarding Malvinas issue

  

  The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Saturday ratified its support to “the legitimate rights of Argentina in the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the spaces surrounding maritime areas,” it was reported.

• Tuesday, September 7th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina sends Chile diplomatic note rejecting their “expansive vocation”

  

  Argentina has sent a diplomatic note to the Chilean Government of President Sebastián Piñera rejecting the latter's “expansive vocation” with regards to his most recent decree concerning the continental shelf.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:02 UTC

  Falklands Police finds no evidence of human remains at Teal Inlet; Red Cross satisfied with excavation results

  

  The Royal Falkland Islands Police (RFIP) has continued to investigate reports of a burial site at Teal Inlet, alleged to contain the remains of unidentified Argentine soldiers.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 10:19 UTC

  Argentina wants to prove it existed as such 200 years ago

  

  Argentina officially invited the Portuguese president and Prime Minister to visit the country as part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the recognition by Lisbon of Argentina's independence.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2021 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers want “Malvinas issue” to become decisive in allowing candidates to run for office

  

  A group of Argentine Senators has entered a bill whereby candidates for any electoral office must acknowledge the 1994 Constitutional reform which made the claim over the Malvinas Islands “a permanent and inalienable” goal.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 07:59 UTC

  “Malvinas are Argentine”, but thinking differently is not a crime in Argentina, Patirica Bullrich

  

  Recent statements by representatives from Argentina's intellectual elite referred to the Falklands being a British territory and belonging to the Kelpers, and that Argentina did not exist as such at the time, are still reverberating, but the country is holding primaries and elections next month and in November so some political amendments seem necessary.