Tag: United Kingdom

• Thursday, April 19th 2012 - 22:12 UTC

  London mayoral candidate for the British National party is a Uruguayan national

  

  The British National Party confounded expectations by fielding a Uruguayan national, Carlos Cortiglia, as its candidate for London mayor. Mr Cortiglia moved to the UK in 1989 and has lived and worked in London ever since.

• Thursday, April 19th 2012 - 05:18 UTC

  Falklands’ dispute controversy reaches The Washington Post

  

  The Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute has reached the US capital triggering an interesting exchange in the Washington Post, involving the newspaper and the ambassadors from Argentina and the UK.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2012 - 08:10 UTC

  Hague expresses deep concern over the YPF case and promises support for Spain

  

  British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was “very concerned” at President Cristina Fernández announcement to expropriate YPF, a decision he believes “goes against all the commitments Argentina has made in the G20 to promote transparency and reduce protectionism.”

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 01:28 UTC

  Joint poll shows ‘Falklands/Malvinas’ issue is ‘important’ for Argentines, but only ‘relevant’ for Brits

  

  Argentines give more importance than the British to the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty issue, according to the first public opinion on the matter done simultaneously in both countries involved.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2012 - 15:32 UTC

  Argentina denies ‘political opportunism’ in Malvinas sovereignty-claim campaign

  

  The Argentine government said that the Malvinas Islands sovereignty claim is “not political opportunism” or geared “to remove other issues from the country’s political agenda” and is coherent with the political and ideological thinking of both Presidents Cristina Fernandez and her late husband and former president Nestor Kirchner.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 06:17 UTC

  FT says UK trying to collect £ 45m Argentina used in the Falklands’ conflict

  

  According to a piece from the Financial Times Britain is chasing £45m of debt owed by the Argentine government that was lent to the military Junta in 1979 and used, in part, to buy weapons that were later used during the Falkland Islands in 1982.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:29 UTC

  Memorandum for Lady Thatcher on Chile’s support during Falklands’ conflict

  

  It is a well known and admitted fact that the Chilean regime of General Augusto Pinochet provided very useful intelligence to the British effort to recover the occupied Falkland Islands in 1982.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 01:40 UTC

  Argentina blasts PM Cameron ‘profound error’ of glorifying colonialism

  

  The Argentine Foreign Ministry strongly rebuked comments made by UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the Malvinas War and blasted the UK’s “persistent glorification of colonialism”.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 00:47 UTC

  Argentine invasion of the Falklands, ‘a profound wrong’ says PM Cameron

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday April 2 called Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands three decades ago a “profound wrong” aimed at depriving the Islanders of their freedom.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Rioters attack UK embassy in Buenos Aires with stones, sticks and gasoline bombs

  

  Argentine radical groups fought several hours with riot police in Buenos Aires protecting the British embassy on the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands/Malvinas war between Argentina and the UK.