Tag: South Atlantic conflict

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 19:22 UTC

  Uruguayan Senate agrees on a consensus statement on the Malvinas war and ongoing conflict

  

  Argentina's secretary for Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic affairs, Guillermo Carmona, this week visited Uruguay where he met with the Senate's International Affairs Committee, as part of the round of contacts with neighboring countries to discuss South Atlantic and Antarctica issues.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands war was instrumental in accelerating the return of democracy in Argentina, Ambassador Figueroa

  

  By Catherine Lough, PA - The memory of the Falklands War is an “open wound” for Argentina, the country’s ambassador to the UK has said. Speaking to Catherine Lough of Press Association news agency to mark the 40th anniversary of the conflict, Javier Figueroa said wrangling over the Islands’ sovereignty is “ridiculous”, but admits that the war was instrumental in accelerating the return of democracy to Argentina.

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 21:52 UTC

  Falklands newsman would like an apology for 1982

  

  While Argentina's Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero wrote for The Guardian last week that his country posed a threat to no one, Graham Bound, founder of Port Stanley's Penguin News, told the Spanish newswire service EFE that the presence of British troops on the islands did serve a purpose.

• Saturday, July 17th 2021 - 07:59 UTC

  Ushuaia names commission to prepare Malvinas war 40th anniversary

  

  Ushuaia officials and Malvinas war veterans have been meeting to start preparing the agenda of commemorations for the fortieth anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict next year.

• Friday, May 21st 2021 - 23:59 UTC

  Falklands, 40th anniversary of liberation to be a year of commemoration and celebration

  

  Falkland Islanders are hoping to mark the 40th Liberation anniversary with a year of events that both commemorate the liberation of the islands and look to their future, the Chair of the 40th-anniversary committee told Mercopress this week.

• Friday, May 1st 2020 - 21:41 UTC

  Falklands recalls first loss at Goose Green in May 1982, and the incarceration of local residents by Argentine forces

  

  The Falkland Islands are preparing for the commemoration of significant anniversaries of events from the 1982 conflict when Argentine forces invaded the country. The first of these will take place at 2pm on Sunday 3 May, when a short memorial service will be held at Goose Green to mark the death of Lieutenant Nick Taylor.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 18:14 UTC

  Deminers resume work in Falklands following a road accident involving five of its members

  

  Five members of the SafeLane demining team operating in the Falkland Islands were involved in a road traffic incident on December 21. John Hare of Safelane Global told Penguin News the vehicle was the second in a convoy of three.

• Tuesday, November 12th 2019 - 12:42 UTC

  Argentina issues unified war veteran certificate for 1982 combatants

  

  Argentina Defence Minister Oscar Aguad Monday enacted the Certificate of Malvinas War Veterans for those who were actively involved in the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas conflict, it was announced.

• 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.

• Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 23:55 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas war experience conference forcibly cancelled at Buenos Aires college

  

  An open conference by two Argentine Air Force pilots at an elite college in Buenos Aires had to be suspended following “ill-treatment” and overall questioning of Argentine armed forces conduct by the students and apparently one of the parents that were also invited to the event.