Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• Monday, May 7th 2012 - 04:11 UTC

  Timerman tells Hammond world is safer with creativity than “bombing civilians”

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman replied to recent demands of an apology made by UK Defence Minister Phillip Hammond over a controversial Olympic advert shot in the Falkland Islands, and urged London to “honour the deaths of those who died in the 1982 conflict by constructing peace.”

• Monday, May 7th 2012 - 04:02 UTC

  Y&R says the controversial (Malvinas/Olympics) advert “belongs to the client”

  

  The creative managing director of Young & Rubicam Buenos Aires said that is spite of the request from the central office in New York it can’t force the Argentine government to withdraw the controversial advert linking the Falklands/Malvinas claim with the coming Olympic Games in London.

• Sunday, May 6th 2012 - 05:56 UTC

  Malvinas-Olympic advert “not provocative” argues Argentine ambassador

  

  Ambassador to London, Alicia Castro, assured that the Malvinas-Olympic Games advert bought by the Argentine Government ‘is not a provocation’ and did not mean to offend the memory of First World War British combatants.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 13:38 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Reaction to Argentine Olympic Advert

  

  We were very disappointed this morning to see the advert from the Argentine Presidential Office, attempting to politicise the Olympics in service of their territorial ambitions. This video was filmed without the knowledge of the Falkland Islands authorities.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 07:24 UTC

  CFK supports Ambassador Castro during the opening of a ‘Malvinas patio’ in government house

  

  President Cristina Fernández defended Argentine Ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro, who tackled British Foreign Minister William Hague over Falklands/Malvinas Islands dialogue and stressed the fact that “the right to talk cannot be invalidated.”

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 06:38 UTC

  Olympic Games joins Falklands’ dispute: “To compete in English soil, we train in Argentine soil”

  

  As was somehow anticipated by Ambassador in UK Alicia Castro’s attitude, Argentina is determined to take advantage of the London Olympic Games global exposure to press for its claims over the Falklands Islands, as part of a plan allegedly called “Sowing for the Malvinas claim”.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 15:06 UTC

  Peru could find itself snared in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute

  

  By W. Alex Sanchez, Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs - Thirty years after a bloody war between the United Kingdom and Argentina, the longstanding territorial conflict over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands continues to simmer.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 05:50 UTC

  Peace Nobel laureates deliver letter to PM Cameron office calling for Falklands’ dispute dialogue

  

  Argentine Peace Nobel prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel delivered in London a letter of seven Peace Nobel winners to Prime Minister David Cameron urging UK along with Argentina to reach a peaceful solution over the sovereignty of the disputed Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 05:37 UTC

  Argentina promises more public harassment on Falklands: “you wait and see”

  

  Argentine ambassador in London Alicia Castro who on Monday surprised and embarrassed (‘ambushed’, according to the UK media) Foreign Secretary William Hague asking him at a public meeting on talks on the disputed Falkland Islands future, has promised more of the same stuff.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 05:16 UTC

  Argentina recalls Air Force Malvinas’ baptism of fire; promises “utmost respect for Islanders”

  

  Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli assured that the Argentina government will reiterate its claims over the UK militarization at the Malvinas Islands and highlighted the backing of Latin American countries in the struggle fight for sovereignty over the archipelago.