Tag: Malvinas

• Thursday, March 20th 2014 - 03:28 UTC

  Malvinas: Argentina understands UK's insistence on tripartite talks, “but UN resolutions prevent it”

  

  The Telegraph published a long interview with Daniel Filmus recently appointed to head the Argentine government newly created Malvinas Islands Related Issues Secretariat in which he repeats many of the arguments of the Cristina Fernandez administration campaign referred to the Falklands sovereignty claim, using such words as 'colonialism' and 'militarization', and attacking UK's refusal to sit and dialogue as indicated by UN resolutions.

• Wednesday, March 19th 2014 - 07:21 UTC

  With Malvinas in mind, Argentine diplomat calls for recreating links with UK

  

  The recent visit to Chile and particularly Uruguay of Foreign Office minister for Latin-American Hugo Swire has triggered a barrage of comments and debate in Argentina about the Falklands/Malvinas, particularly aggressive towards the FCO official, but not surprising.

• Tuesday, March 18th 2014 - 06:59 UTC

  Malvinas/Crimea: Cristina Fernandez blasts UK on “double standard”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández has criticized what she dubbed a “double standard” from the United Kingdom, due to the nation condemning the Crimean referendum on union with Russia while supporting the rights of Falklands/Malvinas residents to hold a vote on their future.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:58 UTC

  Argentine government picks on Swire interview to attack opposition leaders

  

  Argentine cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich claimed that UK's preference to talk about the Falklands/Malvinas dispute with opposition presidential hopefuls, clearly means that “these leaders are willing to a greater flexibility regarding foreign interests in the dispute”.

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 08:36 UTC

  Timerman happy with the way he is running Malvinas policy

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said he must be doing the right things regarding the Falklands/Malvinas issue because the Foreign Office prefers to talk to members of the opposition.

• Tuesday, March 11th 2014 - 06:28 UTC

  Falklands weekly says Argentina's call for dialogue and respect is 'farcical'

  

  The Falkland Islands latest Penguin News editorial picks on the Chagos Islanders controversy surfaced by Ambassador Alicia Castro and laments that Argentina insists that Falkland Islanders 'are a non people entitled to nothing', but on the other hand had it not been “for the Argentine act of aggression that shone a spotlight on our existence as a population, we too might have ended up a people without a place”.

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 05:44 UTC

  Malvinas opportunities and links for Uruguay, but mostly unknown to current generations

  

  Lawmaker Jaime Trobo came out strongly is support of close links between the Falkland Islands and Uruguay in a column which he published in Mercopress underlining the ”interesting lesson of discovering a reality mostly unknown for Uruguayans despite the (Islands) geographic, cultural and historic proximity to Uruguay”.

• Wednesday, March 5th 2014 - 05:11 UTC

  Malvinas negotiations will take place 'sooner than later' forecasts Cristina Fernandez

  

  “Sooner than later” Argentina will be able to discuss with the UK “the Malvinas Islands sovereignty issue” as indicated by the UN resolutions, said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez during her speech to the General Assembly opening the 132th legislative period last Saturday, March first.

• Wednesday, March 5th 2014 - 05:07 UTC

  Falklands: Timerman says Red Cross will help with identification of remains at Darwin cemetery

  

  Foreign minister Hector Timerman said that the International Committee of the Red Cross will help with the identification of Argentine soldiers killed during the Falklands/Malvinas war and whose remains are still in the territory claimed by Argentina. The UK would be informed at a later stage on the matter.

• Tuesday, March 4th 2014 - 23:22 UTC

  Britain's new 'governor of the Falkland islands' is a provocation

  

  By Alicia Castro, Argentine ambassador in London - Ms Castro writes a column in The Guardian to complain about the appointment of Colin Roberts as the next Falkland Islands governor and unearths some Wikileaks cables referred to the incoming governor's attitude regarding the Chagos islanders forced eviction, and plans to ensure they will never be returned by declaring the vast area a 'marine park' allegedly questioned by US diplomacy.