Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 18:41 UTC

  Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group manifests public support for Argentina

  

  A Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group visited this week the Argentine legation in Santiago to meet Ambassador Ginés González Garcia and express their support for Argentina’s claim over the disputed Falklands and other South Atlantic islands.

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 03:49 UTC

  Uruguay denies access to Malvinas-bound Royal Navy vessels to please Argentina

  

  Uruguay had to stand up to a world power and deny dock access to a Royal Navy vessel on its way to the Falklands/Malvinas to retain good relations with Argentina, admitted the Uruguayan President Jose Mujica in Guadalajara where he met with members of the Uruguayan colony in Mexico.

• Thursday, November 10th 2011 - 08:06 UTC

  Arguello named as the next Argentina ambassador in Washington

  

  Jorge Argüello was appointed as the new Argentine Ambassador to the United States by President Cristina Fernández, according to a release from the Foreign Affairs ministry. Government sources in Buenos Aires said Argüello, who currently represents Argentina before the United Nations, will replace Alfredo Chiaradia in Washington DC.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 02:36 UTC

  Ibero-American summit calls for dialogue on Falklands/Malvinas Islands’ sovereignty

  

  Nations from the Ibero-American bloc reaffirmed the need for the resumption of Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty negotiations and called on the UK to avoid carrying out “one-sided” actions, such as exploiting resources and military action.

• Friday, October 28th 2011 - 16:54 UTC

  Argentine groups take Falklands/Malvinas dispute to Internet domains

  

  The Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute has reached Internet domains with Argentina’s president of internet users appealing to ICANN to cancel ‘fk’ for those pages related to the Islas Malvinas alleging they are not a state or territory.
  ICANN stands for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

• Friday, October 28th 2011 - 05:07 UTC

  UK “defies South America” when it denies Argentina Malvinas sovereignty

  

  The Argentine representative before United Nations, Jorge Argüello claimed that the UK “defies the whole of South America” when it impedes Argentina from patrolling its own waters and exercising sovereignty over its own spaces.

• Wednesday, October 26th 2011 - 13:28 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers present Falklands’ motion before the Parliamentary Union

  

  Argentine lawmakers participating of the Inter Parliamentary Union, IPU, in Switzerland presented a motion referred to the Falklands/Malvinas, calling for a ban on the exploitation of natural resources in those countries that have been invaded by military forces.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:45 UTC

  Argüello claims the UK is ‘stealing’ fisheries resources from Argentine Malvinas

  

  Jorge Argüello, Argentina's permanent representative to the United Nations, accused the United Kingdom of stealing Argentine fisheries resources around the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

• Monday, October 17th 2011 - 04:09 UTC

  Argüello insists: Falklands ‘lives off MPA and the British Antarctic Survey’

  

  Argentine representative before United Nations Jorge Argüello insisted in a public statement that ”be it not for the aid from London, the Falkland Islands could under no concept subsist without its natural continent, South America”.

• Thursday, October 13th 2011 - 23:37 UTC

  “UK pays Falkland Islanders to remain in the Islands and not migrate to Argentina”

  

  Argentina's permanent representative to the United Nation, Jorge Argüello, accused the United Kingdom of paying the Falkland Islanders to remain on the Islands during a conference Wednesday in Mexico’s Autonomous University, UNAM.