Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• 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.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Beatriz Sarlo: Falklands belong to the Islanders, despite useless nationalism myths

  

  “Nationalism is a useless myth, certainly not the way to address current and real problems”, underlined the historian and political analyst Beatriz Sarlo who last week triggered a storm in Argentina by reiterating that the Falkland Islands are a British territory, belong to the Kelpers and remind her of southern Scotland.

• Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine literary critic says Falklands are British, sparks rejection and controversy

  

  Statements by Argentine literary and cultural critic Beatriz Sarlo who Tuesday said that the Falkland Islands were “British territory” sparked nationwide controversies about which she defiantly warned she “cared very little.”

• Wednesday, August 4th 2021 - 07:03 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego fears the significance of Falkland Islands new port

  

  The province of Tierra del Fuego, on Tuesday, denounced UK's construction company BAM Nuttall for operating with no authorization in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands district, currently under British control but over which Argentine claims sovereignty.

• Friday, July 30th 2021 - 00:30 UTC

  Falklands signs HPP2 Memorandum of Understanding ahead of August visit by ICRC

  

  This Thursday the Falkland Islands Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between FIG, the UK Government, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

• Monday, July 26th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  A pro-Falklands lawmaker in Argentine congress: not to be dismissed...

  

  An academic respectful of historic events and understanding towards the people of the Falkland Islands sitting in the Argentine congress? That could be the outcome of the scheduled September primaries and midterm elections in November according to some ultra-nationalistic media in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 10:15 UTC

  Search at Falklands' Teal Inlet for more possible Argentine soldiers interments

  

  Falkland Islands' Chief Police Officer Superintendent Jeff McMahon is heading an inquiry to find the remains of Argentine soldiers who are still unaccounted for and maybe in unmarked interments in the north of East Falkland at a place called Teal Inlet.