Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

• Tuesday, October 4th 2011 - 06:49 UTC

  Clarin says it’s time for Argentina to disclose Malvinas war documents

  

  Buenos Aires daily Clarin in an editorial asks for the Argentine government to release and disclose documents to public scrutiny, referred to the Argentine landing in the Falklands/Malvinas conflict in 1982 since next 2 April 2012, thirty years would have elapsed.

• Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 19:02 UTC

  Argentina celebrates 45 years of the “Condor Operation” landing in Falklands

  

  One of Argentina’s most powerful unions’ honoured members of the “Condor Operation” which 45 years ago hijacked a commercial aircraft and had it flown to the Falklands/Malvinas Islands where the group flew the Argentine flag.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 03:34 UTC

  G77 urges UK to return to Malvinas sovereignty negotiations with Argentina

  

  For the first time ever the 131 Foreign Affaire ministers from the countries in the G77 coalition plus China urged the United Kingdom to return to negotiations with Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, the Argentine Foreign Ministry informed on Sunday.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 15:58 UTC

  UK tells CFK “no Falklands’ sovereignty talks unless and until such time as Islanders so wish”

  

  “There can be no negotiations on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands unless and until such time as the islanders so wish”, reaffirmed the UK delegation in an official statement in reply to remarks from the President of Argentina before the UN General Assembly.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 07:17 UTC

  UK government “regrets Argentina considering withdrawing from yet another agreement”

  

  The UK government regrets that “Argentina is considering withdrawing from yet another agreement with the United Kingdom” said on Thursday a spokesperson for the British embassy in Buenos Aires in reference to Argentina’s statement before the UN to further isolate the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 07:11 UTC

  Argentine threat to air link is “act of desperation” says Faklands’ lawmaker

  

  If Argentina goes through with its threat to suspend the Falklands/ Chile airlink it will be an, “act of desperation,” said Member of Legislative Assembly Jan Cheek quoted by the Friday edition of the Falklands’ Penguin News.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 01:36 UTC

  UN Argentine ambassador ratifies air isolation threat to the Falkland Islands

  

  The Argentine Ambassador before the UN, Jorge Argüello, ratified Thursday morning that if the United Kingdom keeps on refusing to discuss and negotiate Malvinas Islands’ sovereignty, the government will cancel flights to the South Atlantic archipelago.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 08:11 UTC

  CFK agrees to visit Chile after October 23 presidential election

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was invited to visit Chile during a meeting she held in New York City with her Chilean counterpart Sebastián Piñera on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:43 UTC

  Argentina is back in the international arena “with participation and leadership”

  

  United Nations Argentine ambassador Jorge Argüello said that the isolation chapter is over, “Argentina is back in the international arena displaying participation and leadership”, something that will be clearly exposed by President Cristina Fernandez when she addresses the UN assembly this week.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:41 UTC

  CFK will demand Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty negotiations before UN assembly

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be addressing the United Nations General Assembly next Wednesday when she is expected to renew sovereignty claims on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and make strong statements regarding the dispute with Iran.