Tag: Martín García Moritán

• Friday, January 17th 2025 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina to blend Montevideo diplomatic missions into one

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei's “chainsaw” policies reached the South American country's diplomatic efforts: After recalling Ambassador Martín García Moritán from Uruguay citing “service reasons,” Buenos Aires announced it would be unifying its presence in Montevideo under one single Ambassador who would also be representing the country before the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).

• Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 10:14 UTC

  Argentina recalls Ambassador in Montevideo due to “service reasons”

  

  Ambassador Martín García Moritán has been removed from the Argentine mission in the Uruguayan capital and ordered back to Buenos Aires, according to Presidential Decree 29/2025 published Wednesday in the Official Gazette. The measure was adopted barely over a month before President-elect Yamandú Orsi's March 1 inauguration. The career diplomat had been appointed on Feb. 19, 2024.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2017 - 15:17 UTC

  UK reaffirms commitment to Falklands sovereignty; Argentina insists self-determination not applicable to Malvinas

  

  The United Kingdom had no doubt about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Islands, South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas, and there could be no dialogue on sovereignty over them unless its people so wished, the UK representative Stephen Hickey said at the United Nations Fourth Committee meetings this week.