Tag: Federico Pinedo

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 07:08 UTC

  Malvinas carved plaque inaugurated at Casa Rosada

  

  The Argentine government honoured Malvinas war Veterans with a ceremony at Government House, Casa Rosada, where a plaque with the Falkland Islands contour was unveiled together with an inscription underlining the valor of the combatants in their determination to recover the South Atlantic Islands.

• Friday, November 30th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

  Theresa May in Buenos Aires: good and bad news, Falklands and the Brexit deal

  

  A few minutes before midnight Friday, Buenos Aires time, a Royal Air Force transport with Prime Minister Theresa May landed at Ezeiza airport. Mrs May is the first serving UK prime minister to visit the capital Buenos Aires, and the second to travel to Argentina, after Tony Blair in 2001.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 19:58 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine tombstones with the names of identified soldiers should arrive Sunday

  

  An Argentine charter is scheduled to land in the Falkland Islands this Sunday carrying the plaques (tombstones) with the names of the 88 now identified Argentine soldiers buried in the Darwin cemetery following a DNA forensic identification process during last year, led by the International Red Cross.

• Thursday, August 17th 2017 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentine Senate head calls on UK for Falklands/Malvinas discussions

  

  Argentine Senate president Federico Pinedo called on the British government ”to sit down and discuss all issues (of the bilateral agenda) including the Malvinas dispute”, and should also make a greater effort in improving its relations with Latin America, according to a statement from DYN news agency.

• Thursday, June 22nd 2017 - 02:11 UTC

  Argentina to appear before UN Decolonization Committee as one on Falkland/Malvinas Islands case

  

  The entire political spectrum will join forces behind newly-appointed Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie as new appeal for UK to discuss sovereignty is expected to be launched.

• Monday, February 6th 2017 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers UK visit “very positive”; all bilateral agenda issues, and Falklands were addressed

  

  The speaker of the Argentine Senate, Federico Pinedo, described the multi-party lawmakers delegation visit to the UK as “very positive” since issues of the bilateral agenda were addressed, including Argentina's historic claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2017 - 06:34 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine lawmakers propose two “spaces of confidence” one with UK, the other with Islanders

  

  Argentine lawmakers visiting the UK proposed “generating a space of confidence between Argentina and the UK, and between Argentina and the Islanders, so that in the future a good faith discussion” on the Malvinas Islands sovereignty can be addressed. Likewise additional flights to the Falklands must at some point call in Argentina.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2017 - 10:13 UTC

  Falklands issues to be addressed on Tuesday by Argentine legislative delegation in London

  

  Boosting trade, credit rating, fighting corruption, were among the issues discussed on Monday by the Argentine delegation of all-party lawmakers visiting the UK. Falklands, additional flights and hydrocarbons in the South Atlantic are scheduled to be addressed on Tuesday when the members of Congress meet with Foreign office minister Sir Ian Duncan, said Federico Pinedo, Senate whip and head of the delegation.

• Saturday, January 28th 2017 - 10:42 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers invited to Britain to meet peers in London and Scotland

  

  A delegation of Argentine lawmakers will be visiting UK beginning Monday invited by the Inter Parliamentary Union, IPU, British chapter, with the purpose of establishing closer links at legislative level with their peers.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 17:22 UTC

  Macri congratulates Trump, hopes both presidents can work together for the people

  

  The Argentine president posted his congratulations for Donald Trump as president-elect of the United States on his Twitter account. Malcorra wants quick transition. “I congratulate @realDonaldTrump on his triumph and I hope we can work together for the good of our peoples,” Macri said.