Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:43 UTC
Buenos Aires ceremony to recall Malvinas rights Affirmation Day

Argentina commemorated on Monday in downtown Buenos Aires the Day of the Affirmation of Argentine rights over the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands in a ceremony to honor the former combatants of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 07:58 UTC
Falklands: another Argentine combatant remains identified

Another Argentine combatant fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and buried in the Falkland Islands, has been identified, which brings the number of those still without a name to nine out of a total of 122 graves.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 07:18 UTC
Argentina recalls the Day of Affirmation of its Rights over the South Atlantic Islands

Argentina recalled on Monday, 10 June, a new anniversary of the creation in 1829 of the “Political and Military command headquarters of the Malvinas Islands and adjacencies to Cape Horn in the Atlantic Sea”, and which has been incorporated to the official calendar as the Day of Affirmation of Argentine Rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and its surrounding maritime spaces.
Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 14:58 UTC
Argentina does not recognize UK as a coastal state but will jointly address high seas catches in the South Atlantic

Foreign minister Jorge Faurie strongly denied in Congress on Wednesday that the Argentine government was ready to “handover” the disputed Malvinas Islands to the British, and likewise defended the current proximity policy of president Mauricio Macri administration towards the South Atlantic issue.
Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:58 UTC
Eighteen Argentine military officers face torture charges from the Malvinas war

Next June/July eighteen former Argentine officers will be facing formal torture charges, allegedly committed against conscripts during the Falklands conflict 37 years ago, and twelve years since the beginning of the official investigation by the Tierra del Fuego federal court.
Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 09:34 UTC
“Malvinas Islands will finally be Argentine, through diplomacy”

“The Malvinas Islands will finally, through diplomacy, be Argentine”, said Argentina's Defense minister Oscar Aguad on Tuesday at the main ceremony on the start of the 37th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict with the United Kingdom.
Thursday, March 14th 2019 - 09:52 UTC
Argentine foreign minister receives next of kin who returned from “our Malvinas”

“I imagine you have gone through moments of great emotion in the Islands, next to the graves with the 112 full names, which until now remained unidentified”, Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie was quoted in an official release, on receiving the delegation of next of kin, on their return trip from the Falkland Islands, Wednesday evening.
Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 10:54 UTC
Falklands trip: “strongest experience of my life; it opened my head in several aspects”

“An incredible experience, the strongest of my life, it opened my head in several aspects”, said Nicolás Aguiar, the Argentine 24 year old international-relations student who spent a week in the Falkland Islands as a guest of the local government.
Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 09:01 UTC
Number of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands and identified now total 110

The number of Argentine unknown soldiers buried in the Falkland Islands has fallen by three as those identified and with full names now total 110 out of the original 121/122 remains buried inat the Argentine military cemetery close Darwin.
Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 08:28 UTC
Second humanitarian visit to Falklands confirmed by Buenos Aires and UK ambassador

The Argentine government has confirmed that in coming days it will be meeting with Malvinas families and UK authorities to organize another humanitarian trip to the Falkland Islands so that the next of kin of the 18 recently identified Argentine soldiers can visit, honor and pray at their graves in the Argentine military cemetery near Darwin.