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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 18:25 UTC

Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

  • Friday, June 15th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez calls for an end to colonialism and blast UN Security Council

    A numerous delegation accompanied the Argentine president at her presentation before the C24 claiming the Falklands

    In a strong speech claiming sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas issue addressing the UN Decolonization Committee, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez called on the UK “to leave this history of colonialism behind and start building a new history based on dialogue” but at the same time blasted the recent announcement of a referendum in the Islands do decide on their political status.

  • Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 17:34 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez asked C24 for June 14 to deliver her Malvinas speech

    Ambassador before UN Mark Lyall Grant described this year’s display as “very sad”

    Reacting to the massive media campaign displayed by Argentina, UK UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant revealed that it was President Cristina Fernandez who requested US the Decolonization Committee to schedule the annual discussion of the Falklands/Malvinas status on the anniversary of Britain’s victory 14 June 1982.

  • Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 17:29 UTC

    “Give peace a chance” writes Cristina Fernandez in world media display

    The advertisement article was published in The Times and the The Guardian among other newspapers

    Argentine President Cristina Fernández called on the UK to “give peace a chance” in an advertisement article published Thursday on British, Indian and Russian newspapers ahead of her presentation later in the day before the UN Decolonization Committee demanding sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.

  • Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 17:13 UTC

    For peace and reconciliation, we need talks on Las Malvinas

    Alicia Castro is Argentine Ambassador to the UK

    By Alicia Castro - Today marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the war in the South Atlantic, but the sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the UK goes back 179 years. It dates from the time that Great Britain – in much the same way it invaded Buenos Aires in 1806 and 1807 without success – invaded and took the Malvinas by force in 1833. In this lengthy historical process, the events of 1982 are the most regrettable.

  • Wednesday, June 13th 2012 - 13:41 UTC

    Seeking a new understanding of sovereignty

    The London-based South Atlantic Council today made a call “for a new understanding of sovereignty” thirty years after the cease-fire that ended hostilities between Britain and Argentina.

  • Wednesday, June 13th 2012 - 08:28 UTC

    Argentine president and multi-party delegation leave for UN Falklands’ debate

    Tango 01 will transport a considerable delegation to New York

    Argentine President Cristina Fernandez leaves Wednesday at 19.00 hours for New York where on Thursday afternoon she is scheduled to address the UN Decolonization Committee claiming sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands as well as demand discussions with the UK over the future of those territories.

  • Wednesday, June 13th 2012 - 04:46 UTC

    US “remain neutral” in Malvinas dispute, following referendum announcement

    Ms Nuland said she would return an answer on the (hypothetical) result of the referendum

    The US has stated that it will remain neutral in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom, said the spokesperson of the US State Department’s Victoria Nuland after the announcement that the Islanders will hold a referendum in 2013 to decided whether they want to remain British or not.

  • Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:09 UTC

    C24 chair says Falklands issue is over sovereignty, not exactly decolonization

    Morejon-Pazmiño emphasized that the main purpose of C24 is “for both sides to negotiate in a most peaceful way”.

    The UN Special Committee on Decolonisation launched on Monday a new round of sessions with much attention focused on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute since Argentine president Cristina Fernandez next Thursday will become the first head of state to address the C24.

  • Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:04 UTC

    UK reply to Argentina on Falklands/Buenos Aires flights and fisheries next week

    C24 is the legacy of a time when there was a program to decolonize all over the world and which has been vastly completed, said Browne

    Foreign Office minister for Latin American affairs Jeremy Browne anticipated that next week there will be a “substantial reply” to Argentina’s proposal for three monthly flights between Buenos Aires and the Falklands and the resumption of negotiations over fisheries conservation in the South Atlantic, but in noy way linked to any sovereignty discussions.

  • Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 08:53 UTC

    A museum paying homage to those who fought on both sides

    National Malvinas Museum, Highway N° 9, Oliva, Cordoba.

    Over the last thirty years the National Malvinas War museum of Argentina in the city of Oliva in the province of Cordoba, has become the country’s largest and most important of its sort