Tag: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

• Sunday, June 18th 2017 - 16:06 UTC

  Ambassador Kent: “Bilateral ties improving but Falkland islanders will define their own future”

  

  The British ambassador to Argentina, Mark Kent, underlined the United Kingdom's intentions to “improve” bilateral relations and admitted a meeting between President Mauricio Macri and Prime Minister Theresa May within the framework of the G20 was possible. However, he made it clear that with regards to the Falkland Islands question “the islanders have the right to define their own future.”

• Friday, June 9th 2017 - 11:14 UTC

  Falklands: Red Cross exhumation of Argentine remains in three phases

  

  With 123 graves to be exhumed but 140 families waiting for news, the exhumation and identification of Argentine war dead in the Falklands will bring answers to some families, but not every family involved, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Operational Coordinator for the project to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin Cemetery.

• Sunday, June 4th 2017 - 14:05 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Red Cross head of project has arrived in the Islands

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, has reported that final preparations are underway ahead of work to identify the mortal remains of the unidentified Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery at the Falklands/Malvinas. Laurent Corbaz, head of the project for the ICRC, arrived on Saturday to the Islands. The rest of the team is expected to join him in the coming weeks.

• Friday, June 2nd 2017 - 06:15 UTC

  ICRC team underlines good understanding with Falkland Islanders

  

  Head of the Humanitarian Project Plan (HPP) team to identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin Cemetery confident to complete on-site operations in August, full task by end of year, speaks of “good understanding” with Islanders.

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:56 UTC

  Falklands Darwin cemetery: Red Cross identification mission begins round of talks in Argentina

  

  A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross is scheduled to begin this Monday a round of contacts in Buenos Aires related to the Humanitarian Project Plan for the identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands cemetery combatants identification: Red Cross delegation expected in Buenos Aires

  

  An advance mission from the International Committee of the Red Cross is expected in Buenos Aires next week to iron out details of the DNA process to be implemented for the identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried in the Falkland Islands at the Darwin cemetery. The news was advanced in the Buenos Aires media.

• Wednesday, May 10th 2017 - 08:44 UTC

  Malvinas Families want Argentina to resume next of kin trips to Darwin cemetery

  

  The Malvinas Families Commission have requested foreign minister Susana Malcorra for the Argentine state to resume the organization and financing of trips of relatives to the Darwin cemetery where the Argentine soldiers fallen during the 1982 conflict are buried, reports Clarin.

• Saturday, April 29th 2017 - 08:06 UTC

  Falklands: 95 Families have consented to ID tests of Darwin cemetery remains; task should begin 19 June

  

  The Argentine foreign ministry confirmed that 95 families from the 123 Argentine unknown combatants buried at Falkland Islands' Darwin Cemetery have consented to the identification of remains, a task to be undertaken by the International Red Cross, allegedly beginning next 19 June.

• Saturday, March 11th 2017 - 07:26 UTC

  Argentina tells Malvinas' Families and Veterans that identification process in Darwin cemetery is “strictly humanitarian”

  

  Argentine foreign ministry officials reiterated to representatives from the Malvinas Fallen Relatives Commission and the Confederation of Malvinas Combatants that the initiative to identify Argentine unknown soldiers buried in the Darwin cemetery in the Falklands, is strictly humanitarian.

• Saturday, March 4th 2017 - 11:16 UTC

  Identification of soldiers remains buried in Falklands has started, says Argentina

  

  The Argentine Justice ministry's Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism Desk, announced on Friday that the identification process of the remains of the “Argentine heroes” buried in the Falkland Islands Darwin cemetery has started, and is based on the “accord signed between Argentina and the UK”.