Tag: Javier Figueroa

• Saturday, May 6th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  No Argentine special delegation to Charles III Coronation; when Peron proposed UK the purchase of Falklands

  

  Contrary to all the pageantry, rituals, and displays of past Coronations in the United Kingdom, this time Argentina is sending no special, much less extraordinary delegation to the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, and is limited to the attendance of its ambassador in London, Javier Figueroa.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands war was instrumental in accelerating the return of democracy in Argentina, Ambassador Figueroa

  

  By Catherine Lough, PA - The memory of the Falklands War is an “open wound” for Argentina, the country’s ambassador to the UK has said. Speaking to Catherine Lough of Press Association news agency to mark the 40th anniversary of the conflict, Javier Figueroa said wrangling over the Islands’ sovereignty is “ridiculous”, but admits that the war was instrumental in accelerating the return of democracy to Argentina.

• Monday, October 11th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Fragments of Argentine aircraft downed in Falklands donated to museum

  

  British soldier David Richardson, who found the fragments of a downed Argentine Air Force Dagger downed by a British Harrier during the 1982 Falklands War, has donated the items to be exhibited at a museum in the province of Córdoba, Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom, Javier Figueroa announced.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 10:15 UTC

  Florencia Kirchner's “nanny” in Cuba rewarded with Argentine embassy in UK

  

  Javier Figueroa, currently head of the Argentine embassy in Cuba has been appointed as the next ambassador in the United Kingdom, and according to Clarin is an expert on Malvinas affairs. His time in Havana coincided with Cristina Fernandez daughter Florencia Kirchner medical internment, which impeded her from travelling back to Argentina.

• Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentina/Falklands fisheries talks: what happened and what can be expected

  

  Last week there was intense diplomatic activity regarding the Falkland Islands: the meeting of the Fisheries Subcommittee to be held in Buenos Aires on Monday 20 was suspended; the ambassadors before Great Britain and before the international organizations in Geneva, Renato Sersale di Cerisano and Carlos Foradori, were displaced and the secretary of Matters Related to the Falkland Islands, Daniel Filmus, made his presentation in New York in the Decolonization Committee, urging that a negotiation instance be promoted from the UN.

• Friday, September 13th 2013 - 02:16 UTC

  Argentina confirms that the Malvinas question has become a Latinamerican strategy issue

  

  Javier Figueroa head of the Malvinas Desk at the Argentine Foreign ministry said that it is strategic to make the “Malvinas question” a Latinamerican issue. Figueroa made the statement during a meeting of Central America and Caribbean Malvinas Solidarity groups which opened Thursday in Havana.