27/03/2013 | Argentina

UK says Argentina's position over Malvinas is 'unsustainable'

Less than a week ahead of a new anniversary of Malvinas Islands 1982 War, the UK today blasted Argentina’s stance over the sovereignty of the South Atlantic territories calling it “unsustainable.”

18/01/2013 | Argentina

Malvinas gov't sets referendum date and question

The Malvinas Islands government announced the date on which a referendum in order to enable islanders to express their view on the political status of the islands will be held.

04/02/2013 | Argentina

Timerman: 'Argentina is an incomplete country without Malvinas'

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman arrived in London today to meet with an Argentine-United Kingdom multi-party parliamentary group and the 18 pro-dialogue groups from across the European Union tomorrow.

01/03/2013 | Argentina

CFK renews claims over Malvinas Islands

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner renewed the claims to the United Kingdom over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands. "The world is the one demanding dialogue," she assured as the pro-government lawmakers and militants celebrated her statement.

02/01/2013 | Argentina

CFK urges Cameron to open Malvinas Islands sovereignty talks

02/01/2013 | Argentina

CFK's letter to David Cameron

09/01/2013 | Argentina

'The arrival of Libertad is a sign of political, economic sovereignty'

Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli assured today that "he's very satisfied" due to the arrival of the Frigate Libertad in Mar Del Plata, which “shows the changes Argentina undergoes regarding the fight for its political and economic sovereignty.”

12/06/2012 | Argentina

US 'remains neutral' in Malvinas sovereignty dispute

The US has stated that it will remain neutral in the Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom, said the spokesperson of the US State Department’s Victoria Nuland after the recent announcement that the islanders will hold a referendum in 2013 to decided whether they want to remain British or not.

14/06/2012 | Argentina

'An agreement over the Argentine claim is a matter of time,' Ivan Briscoe

Analyst of the Investigation Conflicts Unit at The Hague, Ivan Briscoe assured today that some kind of agreement involving the Argentine claim of sovereignty of the Malvinas islands "is only a matter of time."

15/06/2012 | Argentina

Malvinas islanders 'disappointed' after Argentina refuses to accept letter

The Malvinas islanders today stated that they were “incredibly disappointed” after the Argentine Government rejected yesterday a letter sent by the Malvinas Islands Government to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner which asked to arrange talks over the disputed islands.

19/03/2012 | Argentina

Taiana: 'Refusing to negotiate will cost the UK much more than doing so'

Former Foreign Minister, Jorge Taiana, told reporters that Argentina has made “a major achievement by making its sovereignty claim over Malvinas islands part of the international agenda”. Likewise, the former minister considered that claims are causing big troubles to the United Kingdom.

24/04/2012 | Argentina

'We need to maintain our hydrocarbon sovereignty,' CFK says

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner vindicated her decision to expropriate YPF, assuring that her Government “remains convinced that all Argentines should be in control of the country’s natural resources.”

01/05/2012 | Argentina

Puricelli assures will insist on claims over militarization of South Atlantic

Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli assured that the Argentina government will reiterate its claims over the UK militarization at the Malvinas Islands and highlighted the backing of the Latin American country in the fight for the sovereignty of the achipelago.

24/02/2012 | Argentina

UN to analyse Argentina's sovereignty claim on Malvinas

The United Nations will receive an Argentine mission on June 14 to discuss Argentina’s sovereignty claim on Malvinas Islands, according to Prensa Latina, a Cuba-based news agency.

24/02/2012 | Argentina

The Malvinas/Falklands: diplomacy interrupted

This is the piece written by actor Sean Penn for "The Guardian". Britain should open negotiations with Argentina over immigration to the Falklands and the distribution of natural resources in the south Atlantic, he says.

15/03/2012 | Argentina

'Gov't will sanction banks, companies and funds backing Malvinas illegal oil drills,' Timerman

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman gave a press conference announcing sanctions against banks and companies that partner with and/or finance oil companies conducting oil drills in Malvinas Islands. This in hand, the Argentine government took another step in the late diplomatic cross-fire with the UK over the sovereignty of the Malvinas, Sandwich, and South Georgia islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.

10/02/2012 | Argentina

Malvinas: Argentina denounces UK before UN

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman filed a complaint against the militarization of South Atlantic by the UK before the UN, as Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged both countries to avoid an escalade in the conflict and said the organization would intervene if both nations agree to it.

12/02/2012 | Argentina

Archbishop Arancedo support's CFK's claims over Malvinas

The head of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA) José María Arancedo expressed his support for the Government's strategy to claim the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands, deeming it “a state matter.”

13/02/2012 | Argentina

Malvinas: Argentina to accept UN's mediation offer

The National government will officially accept the mediation offer made by the UN after the escalated diplomatic tensions between the United Kingdom and Argentina as the latter reinforced claims of sovereignty over the Malvinas, South Georgia, and Sandwich islands.

23/01/2012 | Argentina

Alfonsín, Binner claim for Malvinas sovereignty at international summit

The leaders of the Socialist bloc and the Radical Party, Hermes Binner and Ricardo Alfonsín, met at an international summit and renewed the claims for the Malvinas Islands sovereignty.

26/01/2012 | Argentina

Further escalation between Argentina, UK over Malvinas

The bilateral spat between Argentina and the UK over the Malvinas sovereignty issue continues, as a Senate Committee unanimously voted in favour of debating a declaration bill “strongly repudiating” David Cameron’s “colonialist” statements, while a British minister accused Argentina of “saber-rattling.”

31/01/2012 | Argentina

Gov't condemns UK's decision to send warship to Malvinas

The National Government condemned the arrival of the HMS Dauntless, a British warship, to the Malvinas Islands and urged the UK to “avoid falling in the temptation of engaging in discourse “that transforms patriotism in bullying patriotism.” Earlier today, the UK's Royal Navy confirmed to the BuenosAiresHerald.com that the ship is to be sent to patrol the South Atlantic after the recent diplomatic tensions.

16/06/2011 | Argentina

CFK bashes Cameron’s 'mediocre and almost stupid' remarks over Malvinas

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner bashed UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s emphatic refusal to discuss Malvinas Islands’ sovereignty as the Argentine leader said the Englishman’s statements on the case were “mediocre and almost stupid”, during a visit to Northeastern province of Misiones.

19/01/2012 | Argentina

Cameron reported of Argentine plan for 'fishermen's invasion'

After yesterday’s crossfire between the UK and Argentina over the Malvinas Islands, a British newspaper revealed that the UK Prime Minister’s accusations of ‘colonialism’ against Argentina came after being warned that “Buenos Aires was plotting a mock fishermen’s invasion.”

22/01/2012 | Argentina

'UN doesn’t recognize Malvinas islanders’ right of self determination,’ Timerman

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said that "the United Nations does not recognize Malvinas islanders’ right of self determination" and reiterated the request to the British government to “sit down and negotiate, as it was established by the UN."

15/06/2012 | World

After CFK's speech, Cameron says 'there'll be absolutely no negotiation'

Following President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's reclaim for dialogue between the UK and Argentina over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands at the UN yesterday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron responded making it clear that 'there will be absolutely no negotiation,' over the islands.

11/03/2013 | World

British MP calls for Malvinas shared-sovereignty

Britain’s MP George Galloway stated his country should share the Malvinas Islands, and lamented London’s decision of putting forward the ongoing referendum.

16/03/2012 | World

US ratifies 'neutrality' over Malvinas issue, calls for 'pacific solution'

United States stated that it maintains its neutral position over the Malvinas Islands dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom and hopes for an agreed solution, an official source of the US government assured after the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to the White House.

01/04/2012 | World

The sovereignty dispute from a British point of view

By Sir Lawrence Freedman.- The dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the islands the former knows as the Falklands and the latter as the Malvinas has never been argued out before judges. If it was the judges would be faced with arguments drawing on distinctive views of international law, interspersed with claims about the meaning of geography, and of events, not always well recorded, of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

02/04/2012 | World

'No British gov't could negotiate sovereignty with Argentina,' UK's MP

The UK’s Malvinas Islands All-party Parliamentary Group stated today that “no British government will negotiate with Argentina the sovereignty of the South Atlantic archipelago as we all support the islanders right to self determination.”

09/02/2012 | World

Malvinas: UK dismisses Argentina's complaint to the UN

UK Prime Minister David Cameron said no one should doubt his determination to keep the Malvinas Islands British as he dismissed President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s complaint to the United Nations.

13/02/2012 | World

RAF jetfighters patrol skies in Malvinas, UK media

After Argentina addressed the UN reporting the militarization of the South Atlantic by British forces, two UK’s RAF jetfighters came into action as patrolling the skies of Malvinas Islands, and escorting a private Cessna that was heading to the Islands for a re-fuel stop.

15/02/2012 | World

UK MPs to visit Malvinas next month

Members of the UK’s Defence Select Committee have confirmed that a group of British Members of Parliament (lawmakers) will be visiting the Malvinas Islands next month to inspect Britain’s military force after heightening tensions with Argentina before the 30th anniversary of the conflict.

08/02/2012 | World

UK replies: 'There'll be no negotiations with Argentina on Malvinas sovereignty'

08/02/2012 | World

UK media portraits CFK as 'quintessential bully'

After President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced Argentina will complain to the UN over the “militarisation” of the South Atlantic, British newspaper The Telegraph published a controversial article slashing the Head of State and bringing back to life the possibility of the “Argentine regime” sending a military taskforce to the Malvinas.

08/02/2012 | World

CFK a 'troubled woman', says British war vet

After yesterday’s announcements made by Argentina over Malvinas sovereignty claims, numerous British voices came on stage to express their feelings on the topic.

29/01/2012 | World

UK resumes St Helena airport project to access Malvinas

The UK decided to resume a US$400 million airport project on St. Helena Island, the last exile home of defeated French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The go-ahead was greeted in the Malvinas Islands as a much-needed lifeline after the latest diplomatic tensions between the UK and Argentina.

01/02/2012 | World

UK brings forward Prince William's deployment to Malvinas Islands

After all the fuzz created over the UK’s decision to send its most advanced warship to Malvinas Islands, the British government confirmed that Prince William will begin his six-week deployment in the Islands earlier than expected. The heir to the throne arrived today to the Archipelago.

03/02/2012 | World

UK insists: ‘William’s tour is just routine’

UK’s Defence Minister Philip Hammond reiterated that the deployment of Prince Williams into Malvinas Islands is a routine mission planned long ago, and rejected suggestions the decision to send the heir to the throne to the region represented an escalation of the UK's position.

23/09/2011 | World

British government's full statement

"The British Government has offered the following statement in response to the Argentine President's threat to end the Falklands/Chile airlink."

07/12/2011 | World

UK protests over interception of fishing boats heading to Malvinas

The United Kingdom has protested to Argentina over its interception of UK-licensed fishing boats in disputed waters near the Malvinas Islands, over which the two countries went to war in 1982.

22/01/2012 | World

'Not a single islander wants to be Argentine,' Malvinas gov't member

Dick Sawle, a member of the Malvinas Islands Legislative Assembly reconfirmed today on a TV interview to TN news channel the idea that Argentina is considered a "threat" because of its actions against the population of the Islands.

20/03/2012 | Latin America

Peru assures Humala rejected trip to UK, will visit Argentina in May

Amid cross-Atlantic tensions over the Malvinas Islands and following the Peruvian government’s decision to void the permit given for the HMS Montrose to dock in the El Callao port this week, Peru’s Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo denied President Ollanta Humala accepted an invitation to visit London next month, Peru newspaper El Comercio reported today.