Tag: US Air Force

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:00 UTC

  Obama to CFK: “can we have our (US Air Force seized) equipment back”

  

  US President Barack Obama expressed concern about the recent incident in which Argentina seized part of the cargo of a US military plane that was carrying supplies for a joint military exercise, according to US newspaper The Miami Herald’s Argentine columnist Andrés Oppenheimer.

• Sunday, March 13th 2011 - 00:47 UTC

  Argentina forgets the US Air Force incident and says relations are “excellent”

  

  Relations between Argentina and the United States are ‘excellent’ said ultra ‘Kirchnerite’ lawmaker Carlos Kunkel who discarded as ‘interested parties’ versions indicating certain ‘discomfort’ in President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration with the coming visit of President Barack Obama to El Salvador, Chile and Brazil.

• Friday, March 11th 2011 - 04:12 UTC

  Setback for Timerman: judge files case involving US Air Force aircraft

  

  A new delicate situation has emerged for Argentina’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman after a judge decided to file the case involving the seizing of allegedly “sensitive material” from a US Air Force aircraft that landed in Buenos Aires main airport last month.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 20:45 UTC

  US State Department will no longer comment Wikileaks cables

  

  While offering a press conference in Washington DC, US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip Crowley refused to comment on the recently released Wikileaks cables that mention Argentina and said his government would refrain from doing so in the future.

• Saturday, February 26th 2011 - 03:12 UTC

  U.S. reacts ironically to Timmerman’s advise on contacts with the Argentine press

  

  Unite States officials said they would continue to claim the US Air Force aircraft cargo seized in Argentina and rejected point blank pressures on embassy officials from Argentina’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman to abstain from comments on the issue with the Argentine press.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 07:31 UTC

  US/Argentina incident stalled: “we are waiting for a satisfactory response”

  

  After the US Department of State official Philip Crowley tweeted that his country “wanted his (seized) stuff back,” the Argentine Foreign Ministry issued Wednesday a press statement in which it assured that it still awaits “a satisfactory response” to the formal complaint sent to the US embassy.

• Monday, February 21st 2011 - 07:16 UTC

  Repsol-YPF contract UK flagged vessels for Malvinas basin exploration

  

  Repsol-YPF planned exploration for hydrocarbons in the Malvinas basin, off Tierra del Fuego has suffered a major public relations setback following on the Buenos Aires press revelation that the two vessels contracted for the job not only are UK flagged but also have links with the current oil exploration round in Falkland Islands’ waters.

• Saturday, February 19th 2011 - 06:17 UTC

  US reveals content of the cargo from US Air Force plane seized by Argentina

  

  The US State Department released a press statement detailing the content of the cargo seized by Argentine authorities in the US Air Force plane case, and said that despite a “discrepancy regarding the serial number of one of the weapons, the quantity and type of weapon was consistent with the official manifest” provided to Argentine officials.

• Thursday, February 17th 2011 - 02:45 UTC

  Seized cargo incident: US government “has no reason to apologize” to Argentina

  

  US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip Crowley assured that the US government “has no reason to apologize” to Argentina in the case of the “sensitive materials” that were seized in a US Air Force plane by the local government last week, amid accusations of “attempting to smuggle surveillance and communications equipment.”

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 06:18 UTC

  Argentine Justice takes on the incident of the US Air Force plane cargo

  

  Argentine Judge Ezequiel Berón de Astrada requested on Tuesday Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman; Security Minister Nilda Garré; and the US Embassy “all the information they have” on the incident regarding the US Air Force plane seized in Ezeiza international airport.