Tag: Mark Kent

Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 09:35 UTC
British Ambassador summoned to speed up delivery of AstraZeneca vaccines to Argentina

The Government of Argentina has formally conveyed to the United Kingdom a proposal to manufacture the entire production of the Oxford-AstraZeneca anti-covid-19 vaccine locally and also made a formal complaint about the failure to deliver the 22.5 million doses of which 60% has already been paid for.
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Thursday, March 18th 2021 - 20:28 UTC
UK, Argentina and the Falklands signed an agreement for the second phase to identify soldiers fallen in 1982

The governments of the United Kingdom, the Falkland Islands and Argentina agreed on Thursday to carry out a new stage of the Humanitarian Project Plan that began in 2017 and has allowed the identification of 115 Argentine soldiers fallen during the 1982 armed conflict. The agreement was signed at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, Switzerland and the Plan will be resumed in August, as confirmed by the British Embassy in Buenos Aires.
Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:48 UTC
Argentine businessman awarded an OBE for helping with Falklands/Malvinas humanitarian project

An Argentine businessman, president of one of the country's largest corporations, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire, OBE, for “his services to relations between the United Kingdom and Argentina.”
Friday, December 4th 2020 - 18:13 UTC
Kirsty Hayes to be the next United Kingdom Ambassador to Argentina

The United Kingdom has appointed on Friday Mrs Kirsty Isobel Hayes as the future Ambassador to Argentina in succession to Mr Mark Kent. The British embassy in Buenos Aires will welcome Hayes in September 2021.
Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
Argentina and UK agree on new stage of Humanitarian Plan to identify fallen combatants in the Falklands

UK and Argentina exchanged notes on Thursday in order to advance to a new stage in the Humanitarian Project Plan, which between 2017 and 2019 enabled the identification of 115 Argentine soldiers who died in the Falkland Islands during the 1982 conflict.
Thursday, August 13th 2020 - 06:24 UTC
Ambassador Kent praises UK/Argentine cooperation in combating Covid-19

This is a clear example of the kind of cooperation needed to battle the Covid-19 pandemic globally, UK Ambassador Mark Kent said following the Wednesday announcement of the agreement for the production in Argentina of the vaccine currently being developed by the AstraZeneca lab and the University of Oxford.
Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 08:49 UTC
Controversy in Argentina over a new bank bill with the image of a brilliant doctor with Nazi connections

Argentina's Jewish community has expressed outrage at the decision to print a banknote bearing the likeness of a doctor who expressed support for Nazi ideology and even backed Josef Mengele's experiments on Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz.
Tuesday, March 24th 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Covid 19 testing: Argentina offers to help Falklands, which has no identified cases yet

Argentina on Monday said it had reached out to Britain`s ambassador in Buenos Aires to offer material support to the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands hit by the coronavirus outbreak.
Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:13 UTC
UK interested in partnership with Argentina to develop the railway system

Ambassador Mark Kent said the United Kingdom wants to be a partner of Argentina in such areas as the development of railways, following a meeting of a British trade mission with the head of the country's Railways infrastructure Administration, ADIFSE, Ricardo Lissalde.
Wednesday, August 7th 2019 - 09:30 UTC
Applications for Chevening Scholarships to study in the UK open until 5 November

The British Embassy has announced that applications for Chevening Scholarships to study in the UK are open until 5 November 2019.