Tag: Rosana Bertone

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego condemns 1989 Madrid Treaty and UK “unilateral actions” in the South Atlantic  

  

  “Thirty years since the Madrid Treaty: rethinking a new national strategy for Malvinas”, was the heading of the conference held in the extreme south Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego with the participation of the governor, Rosana Bertone, former foreign minister Jorge Bielsa, and the Malvinas Question related affairs Secretary, Jorge Arguello a diplomat and one of possible foreign minister names if the opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez wins the presidential election this month.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego protests Falklands display at the coming agricultural show in Uruguay

  

  The extreme south Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego has sent letters to the Foreign Ministry and to the Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic Department expressing concern about a Falkland Islands stand at the British pavilion in the coming international agriculture show in Prado, Montevideo, Uruguay to take place between September 3 and 15.

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 14:58 UTC

  Argentina does not recognize UK as a coastal state but will jointly address high seas catches in the South Atlantic

  

  Foreign minister Jorge Faurie strongly denied in Congress on Wednesday that the Argentine government was ready to “handover” the disputed Malvinas Islands to the British, and likewise defended the current proximity policy of president Mauricio Macri administration towards the South Atlantic issue.

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  “One of the best cruise seasons' for Ushuaia”, boasts governor Bertone

  

  “This is one of the best cruise seasons we've had in years”, said Tierra del Fuego governor Rosana Bertone underlining that tourism is an industry which creates jobs and helps the province's economy. Ms Bertone made the statement during a visit to the port of Ushuaia where she attended the departure of the “Celebrity Eclipse” and welcomed the French flagged “Le Soleil”

• Tuesday, July 17th 2018 - 11:26 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego infighting over the Malvinas Question Observatory

  

  Last week's meeting in Buenos Aires of the Malvinas Question Observatory from the province of Tierra del Fuego with the Malvinas Department at the Argentine foreign ministry has not been without consequences.

• Monday, June 11th 2018 - 07:28 UTC

  Argentina/Falklands “constructive spirit” will be tested at the UN C24 presentations

  

  The constructive spirit and pragmatic attitude towards Argentina/United Kingdom relations and shared interests seems to have spilled positively to international forae, for example the latest OAS general assembly declaration regarding the Malvinas Islands, which does not mention “militarization of the South Atlantic or nuclear arms”, as was common in the Kirchner couple years, and rather keeps to the traditional annual disputed sovereignty claim under the umbrella of the United Nations.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 09:00 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego insists with a representative in the SW Atlantic Fisheries sub committee

  

  Tierra del Fuego media and Clarin in Buenos Aires coincide that foreign minister Jorge Faurie has admitted the possibility for a representative from the extreme south province to attend the Argentine/UK South West Atlantic Fisheries Scientific Sub Committee meetings, which were recently re-launched at the Argentine capital.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  The central ceremony of the Malvinas war 36th anniversary is held in Ushuaia

  

  On the 36th anniversary of the beginning of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict Argentine Interior minister Rogelio Frigerio called “for intelligent ways to advance in our legitimate claim of the Malvinas Islands' sovereignty”. Frigerio was the main speaker at the central event of the 36th anniversary held this Monday in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, next to the Beagle channel.

• Sunday, March 18th 2018 - 10:36 UTC

  Ushuaia at Seatrade in Miami praised for the port services improvements

  

  The port of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego expects to end the current 2017/18 cruise season with over 339 calls, fifty more than in the previous season, revealed governor Rosana Bertone who attended the SeaTrade International Fair in Miami, the world's major event of the industry.

• Wednesday, May 10th 2017 - 07:06 UTC

  “Malvinas Islands already have a flag”

  

  The initiative from an Argentine member of Congress to create a flag for the Malvinas Islands was rejected by Tierra del Fuego governor Rosana Bertone, who recalled that the Malvinas Islands are an integral part of the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands.