Tag: Malvinas

• Tuesday, April 10th 2012 - 15:32 UTC

  Argentina denies ‘political opportunism’ in Malvinas sovereignty-claim campaign

  

  The Argentine government said that the Malvinas Islands sovereignty claim is “not political opportunism” or geared “to remove other issues from the country’s political agenda” and is coherent with the political and ideological thinking of both Presidents Cristina Fernandez and her late husband and former president Nestor Kirchner.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2011 - 09:13 UTC

  How the Argentine military to save a collapsing regime, planned the Malvinas invasion war

  

  Juan B Yoffre, an Argentine journalist, businessman and politician (he was Intelligence chief for two years with former President Carlos Menem) has written a book “1982” on the Falklands/Malvinas conflict where he reveals how the idea of the military invasion was secretly elaborated and implemented.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 06:25 UTC

  Brazil reiterates Falklands-flagged vessels will be banned from entering its ports

  

  Brazil reiterated its intention of banning all Falklands’ flagged vessels from calling at the country’s ports and described as “illegal” the current round of oil exploration in the Islands’ waters.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 08:56 UTC

  Grondona: the only time I asked for something was for the English to return our Malvinas Islands

  

  Julio Grondona president of Argentina’s Football Association, AFA, and FIFA Vice-president strongly denied having been bribed to support Qatar World Cup bid in 2022 and said the only time he ever asked for something was when he told the English they could have his vote “if they returned what belongs to Argentina, the Malvinas Islands”.

• Monday, May 16th 2011 - 17:51 UTC

  Argentine court rules prescription of abuses and tortures against Malvinas conscripts

  

  The cases of abuse, ill treatment, torture and alleged homicides committed against Argentines conscripts by their officers, some of them still on active service, during the 1982 Malvinas war were declared prescribed.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 20:46 UTC

  Falklands will receive another group of Chilean exchange students next September

  

  Another group of Chilean students from Punta Arenas will be travelling to the Falkland Islands next September in the framework of the exchange program agreed between city officials and Falklands’ authorities, according to a report in La Prensa Austral.

• Friday, May 6th 2011 - 06:26 UTC

  Malvinas events overshadowed by Royal Wedding, complains Argentine minister

  

  Argentine Defence Secretary Arturo Puricelli said he was disappointed with the “excessive coverage” granted by the Argentine media to the Royal Wedding and regretted so little attention was given to the commemoration of Malvinas conflict events.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 21:55 UTC

  Falklands’ war book reveals Israel’s arms and equipment support for Argentina

  

  Israel’s role during the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict as a willing supplier of arms, equipment and other materials to Argentina has been revealed in a book titled “Operation Israel: the rearming of Argentina during the dictatorship (1976/1983)” written by Hernan Dobry, with an advance published over the weekend in Buenos Aires daily La Nacion.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 20:27 UTC

  Malvinas voluntary soldier letter to be read in all Argentine schools as of 2012

  

  President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced that the letter written by a teacher and voluntary soldier in the 1982 Malvinas War conflict and which he sent to his pupils is to be read in all Argentine schools beginning 2012.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 20:09 UTC

  Unasur leaders letter to Ban Ki-moon in support of Argentina’s Malvinas claim

  

  Unasur (Union of South American Nations) leaders sent UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a letter dated April 2 in support of Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands Islands.