Tag: Malvinas

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 20:40 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez black tights disperse the focus of the October campaign

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday and according to the official agenda has several appointments with political leaders and business representatives.

• Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 19:01 UTC

  Malvinas controversy: Uruguay Senator sidesteps and swears full allegiance to Argentina

  

  Uruguayan Senator and presidential hopeful Constanza Moreira has clarified some of the concepts attributed to her relative to the Malvinas Islands and alleged Uruguayan sovereignty rights, which received extensive coverage in the Montevideo media and had repercussions in Argentina.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 21:33 UTC

  Malvinas: Uruguay also considers it has historic sovereignty rights over the Islands

  

  Uruguay has founded claims over Malvinas Islands sovereignty based on international treaties and proclamations dating back to the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, according to a paper put to consideration of the ruling coalition program draft committee, it was revealed by the Montevideo press.

• Friday, August 23rd 2013 - 03:30 UTC

  Malvinas alleged ‘militarization’ again the obsession of Cristina Fernandez at anti-nuclear conference

  

  During an anti-nuclear weapon conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentine President Cristina Fernández criticised the right to veto used by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council which she described as an “out of time” instrument and again attacked the UK for ‘sending nuclear submarines’ to the Falkland Islands and called for a region of peace in the South Atlantic.

• Monday, August 19th 2013 - 18:24 UTC

  Malvinas is a Latinamerican cause underlines Argentine Defence minister

  

  Argentina’s defence minister called on the peoples of Latinamerica to defend their natural resources and particularly the Malvinas Islands, ‘an ignominious colonial situation’ in the XXI century.

• Thursday, August 15th 2013 - 15:23 UTC

  Invoking Falklands and common cause with Argentina, ‘Rajoy has burnt his boats with PM Cameron’

  

  Roger Boyes, Diplomatic Editor of The Times, has criticised the recent tactics by Spain and urges the conservative government to return to a more positive approach to the Gibraltar question. Likewise by invoking the Falklands and making common anti-British cause with Argentina the Spanish PM “has burnt his boats with British PM David Cameron”.

• Thursday, August 15th 2013 - 02:56 UTC

  Malvinas/Gibraltar hand-to-hand with Argentina: “a ridiculous adventure” opposition tells Rajoy

  

  The leader of Spain’s opposition Socialist Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba called on the government of president Mariano Rajoy “to avoid adventures that could end looking ridiculous” such as the possibility of a ‘hand to hand’ with Argentina on the Malvinas and Gibraltar cases and instead should look at all the money laundering that takes place in the British Overseas Territory.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2013 - 07:41 UTC

  Falklands: Timerman accuses Clarin of sponsoring the referendum and Foreign Office strategy

  

  Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman in a piece published in the pro-government Pagina 12 accused Buenos Aires daily Clarin of silencing, distorting, hiding and even lying about events in Argentina and particularly regarding the Malvinas colonial issue and in the March referendum ‘of playing to the Foreign Office strategy’.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 05:03 UTC

  Calling the Malvinas: Argentine news broadcast in English from Rio Grande

  

  Since Wednesday midnight Radio Nacional from Radio Grande is broadcasting news in English targeted to the Falkland Islands. The news bulletin has been prepared by Radio Nacional Buenos Aires through Radio Argentina al Exterior and will be broadcasted at the break of every day, reports Tierra del Fuego media.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Malvinas referendum has left dispute resolution “hostage in London”, claims Timerman

  

  Foreign minister Hector Timerman once again anticipated Argentina’s willingness to overcome the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands sovereignty conflict through dialogue, but unfortunately a resolution of the dispute was ‘hostage in London’ and of UK’s ‘imperial disdain’.