Tag: United Kingdom

• Tuesday, September 27th 2016 - 07:41 UTC

  Following Colombia, “Malvinas, one of three issues pending solution in Latin America”

  

  Following the peace agreement signed in Colombia, only three main issues remain pending in the Americas, devolution of Guantanamo to Cuba, the Falklands/Malvinas dispute and a sea outlet for Bolivia, according to Bolivian president Evo Morales who hailed the deal rubricated on Monday in Cartagena before world leaders.

• Monday, September 26th 2016 - 10:22 UTC

  Corbyn crushes MPs challenge and is confirmed as undisputed Labour leader

  

  Left-winger Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected British Labour leader on Saturday, seeing off a challenge from MPs but leaving the main opposition party split as critics said it was even further from power than before. Supporters in Liverpool leaped to their feet cheering as the 67-year-old was confirmed winner with 61.8% of the vote among party members and supporters, easily defeating challenger Owen Smith.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 07:15 UTC

  Macri downplays chat with May, “it was no formal meeting”, just “a nice gesture from the prime minister”

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri on Wednesday downplayed the chat with PM Theresa May on Tuesday at the UN banquet in New York saying it was “no formal or official meeting”, but nevertheless underlined the “good predisposition” for dialogue which Argentina had lost during the last twelve years and anticipated that the Falklands/Malvinas Islands question “will demand many years”.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 06:51 UTC

  Argentina “is not surrendering Malvinas”; Macri/May greeting was “a brief casual encounter”

  

  Foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that Argentina is “not surrendering the Malvinas Islands” and explained that Tuesday's exchange between president Mauricio Macri and Prime minister Theresa May in New York, in the framework of the UN annual assembly was “a brief casual encounter”.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 06:27 UTC

  Argentine congress will be part of the Argentina/UK joint statement discussions

  

  The chair of Argentina's Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee Elisa Carrió has supported president Mauricio Macri's “nonnegotiable” stance on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute and attributed the Argentina/UK joint statement controversy to “minor questions of communication”, nevertheless she summoned deputy foreign minister Carlos Foradori to Congress next Wednesday.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2016 - 09:09 UTC

  Malcorra underlines the significance of a Macri-May “dialogue” but denies any roadmap

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri talked with British Prime Minister about the possibility of holding a more specific meeting to advance in the multiple issues of a bilateral agenda, including the question of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty, “which for us is a priority”, said foreign minister Susana Malcorra late Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2016 - 08:50 UTC

  Falklands: Macri and Theresa May agree “it's time to begin talking”

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri told British Prime Minister Theresa May he was ready to begin an open dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty, which he described as “the main issue” of bilateral relations. According to Argentine media reports, Theresa May said that yes, “it was time to begin talking”.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2016 - 08:27 UTC

  Macri calls for sovereignty dialogue on Falklands in his speech to UN General Assembly

  

  In his first speech as head of state before the United Nations General Assembly, Argentine President Mauricio Macri called on the United Kingdom to find “an amicable solution” through dialogue to the long-standing dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty..

• Tuesday, September 20th 2016 - 09:21 UTC

  Congress expects to summon Malcorra on the Argentine/UK joint statement

  

  The recent Argentina/UK joint statement on cooperation on an ample range of fields with a special chapter on the South Atlantic has triggered strong reactions in Argentina's political establishment and will most probably summon foreign minister Susana Malcorra to Congress to explain the extent of the document announced last 13 September.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2016 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentina/UK joint statement is committed “to create value in the South Atlantic”, which is far larger than Falklands

  

  Senate provisional president Federico Pinedo pointed out on Monday that Argentina did not sign any agreement or treaty with Britain referred to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, but rather “a statement” for the “joint creation of value” in the South Atlantic in “all kinds of activities”.