Tag: United Kingdom

• 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.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 22:20 UTC

  Argentina appeals to Red Cross to help identify remains of soldiers buried in Falklands

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has sent a letter to the Red Cross asking the international organization to intercede before the UK so that the remains of Argentine and British soldiers in the Falkland Islands which are still unknown, 30 years after the beginning of the Malvinas war can be identified.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:47 UTC

  UK parliament partisan support for Falklands’ right to self-determination

  

  The UK’s Falkland Islands All-party Parliamentary Group stated on Monday that “no British government will negotiate with Argentina the sovereignty of the South Atlantic archipelago.”

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:34 UTC

  Falklands’ message from Hague: “we still want to work with Argentina”

  

  In a statement entitled “Why we still want to work with Argentina”, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict, Foreign Secretary William Hague, stressed UK’s eagerness to work with Argentina on several aspects surrounding the Falkland Islands issue.

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:58 UTC

  Thirty years after the Falklands short, victorious war

  

  The Economist latest edition includes a piece on April 2nd 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. The ensuing war Britain fought to recover them still colors UK and Argentine domestic politics

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 22:54 UTC

  Argentina reiterates ‘serious suspicions’ about UK nuclear weapons in Falklands’ region

  

  Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli reiterated Argentina’s “militarization” claims in the Falkland Islands and highlighted “serious suspicions” that Britain is using nuclear weapons in the South Atlantic region.