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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 00:01 UTC

Tag: Malvinas question

  • Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 20:05 UTC

    Argentina - UK: Foreign ministers meet in London

    Jeremy Hunt and Jorge Faurie, accompanied by Ambassador Carlos Sersale in London

    On Minister Faurie’s first official visit to the UK he held talks with his counterpart, Jeremy Hunt, on the most salient issues of the broad bilateral agenda.

  • Saturday, October 8th 2016 - 10:29 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas: Temer administration reiterates support for Argentine legitimate rights

    President Macri thanked Brazil's standing support for the Argentine position in the Malvinas Islands question

    “The president of Brazil reiterated the support of his country to the legitimate rights of the Argentine Republic in the sovereignty dispute with Great Britain relative to the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime spaces”, reads point 45 of the 47-point Argentina-Brazil joint statement from 3 October, following Brazilian president Michel Temer's visit to Buenos Aires.

  • Sunday, April 3rd 2016 - 06:43 UTC

    Cameron open to talk about “Malvinas question” with Macri, says Malcorra

    British PM David Cameron told Argentine president Mauricio Macri that the “Malvinas question will be included” as part of the bilateral talks with Argentina, according to Argentine foreign secretary Susana Malcorra. Apparently before Macri returned to Argentina Friday night from the nuclear security summit in Washington, he held a 'brief encounter' on request from PM Cameron.

  • Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 01:03 UTC

    Malvinas, a dream that can be rescued

    Dante Caputo was foreign minister between 1983 and 1989 under ex president Raúl Alfonsín

    Under this heading Dante Caputo, a former Argentine foreign minister (1983/89) with an impeccable domestic and international academic background addresses the 'Malvinas question' and proposes Argentina sets a 2033 target for a new attempt on the Islands, this time trying to convince the Falkland Islanders, and that in seventeen years time, the country is reliable and sovereignty discussions should then take place.

  • Wednesday, December 23rd 2015 - 09:51 UTC

    Malvinas sovereignty question is a 'State objective', says Argentine deputy foreign minister

    “Argentine diplomacy will do everything possible to search for a political consensus to help design a State strategy”, said Foradori

    Malvinas Islands sovereignty claim is a “State objective”, and Argentine diplomacy “will do everything possible to reach a political consensus to design a State strategy” underlined Argentina's Deputy foreign minister Carlos Foradori during an open debate on the 50th anniversary of the UN General Assembly Resolution 2065

  • Thursday, December 17th 2015 - 07:25 UTC

    Argentina recalls UN Resolution 2065 fiftieth anniversary and renews call for Falklands' negotiations

    The official release from the San Martín Palace enumerates the support for Argentina's position during the last fifty years

    Argentina's Foreign ministry recalled that on 16 December the country commemorates the 50th anniversary of UN General Assembly Resolution 2065, the first referred to the question of the Malvinas Islands.

  • Thursday, December 3rd 2015 - 07:10 UTC

    Ambassador Castro thanks all those British who support the Malvinas Question

    The Argentine ambassador Alicia Castro responds from the podium to the applause received after her speech

    Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro was a guest speaker at the Latin America conference held at the TUC headquarters, alongside other well known political and trade union figures.Her speech was met with a standing ovation from an audience of over 500 British attendants, whom she thanked for supporting Argentina on the Malvinas Question and in the litigation with the speculative or 'vulture' funds.

  • Saturday, July 11th 2015 - 07:22 UTC

    Falklands and Welsh anniversary in Argentina: chronicle of a foretold debate

    Minister Carwyn Jones will be the first top level British official in years to visit Argentina, and there is a diplomatic protocol to be respected by both sides

    Next 28 July Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones will be attending celebrations in the province of Chubut in the framework of the 150th anniversary of the first Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 28 July 1865. An event which in an electoral year in Argentina could become a good opportunity for president Cristina Fernandez to press on the Falkland Islands dispute, according to speculation in the Buenos Aires media.

  • Saturday, July 11th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

    Falklands: Ambassador Castro hopes for UK/Argentina friendly and meaningful dialogue

    Ambassador Castro with Lord Wigley, a Welsh political figure and chairman of the organizing committee for 150th anniversary celebrations

    The Embassy of Argentina in the UK celebrated Independence Day on Thursday, highlighting the importance of national sovereignty and Latin American unity. Before a packed audience of over four hundred people, the Argentine Ambassador Alicia Castro delivered a speech in which she recalled that the aim of the struggle for independence was to unite all the peoples of Latin America.

  • Monday, June 8th 2015 - 08:25 UTC

    “Argentine Malvinas question” support group has a branch in Saudi Arabia

    Ambassador Cerda in Saudi Arabia gave a conference on Argentine claims over Falklands' sovereignty and revealed the existence of a support group

    Argentina is seeking the support of Saudi Arabia in its dispute with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands sovereignty. This was the appeal of the country's Ambassador Jaime Sergio Cerda during a seminar recently on the matter at his residence in the Diplomatic Quarter of Riyadh, reports Arab News.