Tag: Mark Kent UK Ambassador in Argentina

• Monday, February 25th 2019 - 08:38 UTC

  Falklands will receive Malvinas Families relatives next 13 March

  

  The relatives of the latest 29 Argentine soldiers remains identified in the Falklands will be flying on 13 March to the Islands, to the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin to pray and honor their loved ones. The announcement was done by the Argentine journalist Martin Dinatale, who is usually well informed on Falklands issues.

• Saturday, December 29th 2018 - 07:49 UTC

  Identification Plan of Argentine remains in the Falklands to be extended

  

  Argentina and the United Kingdom are to discuss the extension of the current Humanitarian Project Plan to identify Argentine combatant remains buried in the Falkland Islands, to include possible errors in the names of some graves, and other burial sites such as Pebbles island, according to a report from Martin Dinatale published in the news agency Infobae.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 06:50 UTC

  Malvinas veteran reminds Congress that “war was useless, let us not spoil peace”

  

  An Argentine former naval pilot and Malvinas veteran who recently visited the Falkland Islands came out in support of Argentine ambassador in London Carlos Sersale di Cerisiano, who has been strongly criticized and summoned by his country's congress for having referred to Falklands/Malvinas government as the Islands' “top authorities”.

• Monday, December 17th 2018 - 21:34 UTC

  Argentine cemetery benefactor visits Falklands to say “thank you” for the joint humanitarian identification program

  

  Argentine entrepreneur Eduardo Eurnekián, who financed the Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands to bury with dignity those who perished in the 1982 war and also the March 26 flights for relatives to visit the graves of the newly-identified bodies, last week flew to the Islands to the place that has touched his heart since 2003 and thank everybody for the humanitarian accomplishment.

• Friday, November 30th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

  Theresa May in Buenos Aires: good and bad news, Falklands and the Brexit deal

  

  A few minutes before midnight Friday, Buenos Aires time, a Royal Air Force transport with Prime Minister Theresa May landed at Ezeiza airport. Mrs May is the first serving UK prime minister to visit the capital Buenos Aires, and the second to travel to Argentina, after Tony Blair in 2001.

• Sunday, October 21st 2018 - 23:41 UTC

  British submariners honour ARA San Juan crew

  

  The British We Remember Submariners group, who pay tribute to “our Brothers who have sailed on Eternal Patrol over the 6 month period 1st July - 31st December 2017, along with the twenty three submarines that were lost during 1918” has made room to honour the crew of the Argentine Navy's ARA San Juan in this year's commemorative pin.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 07:37 UTC

  Argentine minister and UK ambassador attend play performed by Argentine and British South Atlantic veterans

  

  Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie and British Ambassador Mark Kent attended on Sunday evening the San Martin Theatre for the last performance of “Mined Field”, a project written and directed by Lola Arias and which brings together six Argentine and British veterans from the South Atlantic conflict.

• Saturday, July 28th 2018 - 14:53 UTC

  Relatives authorized to visit the grave of Argentine veteran buried in South Georgia

  

  Family of the only Argentine naval officer killed and buried in South Georgia during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict will soon be able to visit their father's grave in Grytviken, according to reports in the Buenos Aires media.

• Tuesday, June 5th 2018 - 07:51 UTC

  Argentine cabinet chief honors all Falklands' conflict fallen at St Paul's cathedral in London

  

  Argentine cabinet chief Marcos Peña honored all combatants fallen during the Falkland Islands conflict and laid a wreath at the crypt in London's St Paul Cathedral, which remembers the 1982 South Atlantic war.

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 - 06:16 UTC

  (Brexit) UK and Argentina on the same intelligent reinsertion to the global community

  

  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson forecasted a “new, exciting phase” in Anglo-Argentine relations as he wrapped up his visit to Buenos Aires. Johnson visited Argentina to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers summit. His visit was the first by a British Foreign Secretary in over 20 years.