Tag: Malvinas

• Saturday, May 4th 2013 - 09:54 UTC

  Malvinas’ radicals protest and pledge to end Lan Chile air link with the Falklands

  

  The Argentine radical group ‘Resistencia Malvinas’ protested on Thursday midday before the Lan Chile offices in downtown Buenos Aires to demand the end of the weekly air link between Punta Arenas and the Falkland Islands. The group led by Toni Lopez and with drums banging displayed banners, distributed pamphlets and burnt Union Jacks.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 05:48 UTC

  Falklands: Cristina Fernandez leads ceremony to honour 323 crewmembers from torpedoed ‘General Belgrano’

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez honoured the memory of the 323 crew members from the cruiser “General Belgrano” who lost their lives during the Malvinas war, “today, 31 years ago” and described the British torpedo attack on the vessel as “a criminal and coward action”.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 05:44 UTC

  Malvinas dispute ‘will only end when Argentina has full, definitive possession of the Islands’, insists Puricelli

  

  The Malvinas cause will only come to an end when Argentina has definitive possession of the Islands, said Argentine defence minister Arturo Puricelli during a military ceremony to remember the 31st anniversary of the loss of cruiser ‘General Belgrano”, during the Falklands’ conflict torpedoed on 2 May 1982 by a Royal Navy submersible with the loss of 323 lives.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 06:12 UTC

  Falkland Island’s: Argentina reclaims “absolute and exclusive sovereignty over the Islands”

  

  Defence minister Arturo Puricelli said that Argentines “are not prepared to tolerate the usurpation” of the Malvinas Islands ‘for the rest of our lives’ and the honour and glory for those who fought in the South Atlantic “is going to be recalled until we obtain absolute and exclusive sovereignty over our Islands”.

• Saturday, April 27th 2013 - 04:10 UTC

  Malvinas radical group begins campaign against Lan Chile offices in Buenos Aires

  

  An Argentine radical group involved in actions against cruise vessels and maritime traffic with the Falkland Islands has promised a similar campaign against Lan Chile offices in Buenos Aires, the airline which flies the only link of the Islands with the continent.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 03:03 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ referendum blasted by the Argentine embassy in Montevideo media

  

  In full half page white and blue ads the Argentine embassy in Montevideo expressed on Tuesday how grateful it is to Uruguay for its support in the Malvinas Islands claim and for having been one of the first countries to reject the ‘legitimacy and publicity stunt’ of the ‘pseudo-referendum’ recently held in the Falklands.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  “We want sovereignty over the Malvinas, but in peace”, Cristina Fernandez tells Congress

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez again called on the UK to hold talks over the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands during her address to Congress on Friday when she delivered the ‘State of the Nation’ speech and formally opened the 131st legislative sessions.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2013 - 05:13 UTC

  Malvinas: read what the real world is saying

  

  By Fernando Petrella (*) - The following article by an Argentine former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs was published as a column in the Buenos Aires media. The following reproduction in English is not necessarily literal but tries keep to its spirit as much as possible.

• Wednesday, July 11th 2012 - 07:17 UTC

  Defence of Argentine sovereignty over Malvinas has become “a regional issue”

  

  The Argentine ambassador in London Alicia Castro said that South America has reached such a degree of unity that it is possible to think “on the defence of Argentine sovereignty over the Malvinas in regional terms”.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2012 - 08:15 UTC

  “Argentina has just shot itself in the foot” warns Spain Foreign minister

  

  Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo warned on Tuesday that “Argentina has just shot itself in the foot” as the expropriation of YPF oil and gas company might lead to “a break- up with both Spain and the international community.”