This may include advertising from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. It came after the UK vetoed flights from the Falklands to Argentina for the festive season. Sources in Latin American news outlets claimed that the UK Government had rejected Argentina's offer of humanitarian flights from the Falkland Islands to the South American mainland. Argentina s foreign ministry proposed to reroute flights from the British Overseas Territory to neighbouring Chile before they landed in Buenos Aires.
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez pressed the UK to accept that planes operated by Argentina's biggest airline Aerol neas Argentinas should bring family members from the Falkland Islands to the mainland for Christmas. The foreign ministry said in a letter to the British Embassy that planes should go directly to the Punta Arenas airport or some other alternative airport in Chile. The ministry said that most of the Malvinas Islands residents who need air service to the mainland are of Chilean origin. The foreign ministry called the flights a humanitarian offer that called for the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 Pandemic to be considered in the decision.
They said the flights would take place in a context in which regular flights connecting the Islands with the mainland have not been operational since March 2020. The national government wants to contribute to overcoming the negative consequences of the pandemic by making it possible for people living in the Malvinas Islands to travel for personal, health or family matters. Over the past two years, Argentina had pushed for regular flights between the Falkland Islands and the mainland of South America. This comes after weeks of rumbling tensions between the UK Government and Argentina over the continued designation of the Falkland Islands as British territory. In November, the Argentine Minister Guillermo Carmona called the ownership of the islands, known as the Malvinas in Spanish, as one of the last vestiges of colonialism In an interview with Latin American outlet El Comercio, Mr Carmona said that the UK should reopen negotiations on the islands. He said that it was an agenda that will be geared towards making the Malvinas issue not only a national cause but also a global cause in the face of the last vestiges of colonialism, which is the case of the Malvinas Islands. There were negotiations between Argentina and the United Kingdom before the Malvinas War 1982 and the United Kingdom has refused to resume them, so the current government has proposed the need to reposition the Malvinas issue as a way of proposing to the United Kingdom that we generate instances of dialogue. POLL: Would Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak make a better PM after Boris? VOTE Map shows how Russia could invade Ukraine at the moment MAP It's time to choose life and get boosted today - EXPRESS COMMENT COMMENT The situation in the world demands it. The Falklands War erupted over the territory between the UK and Argentina in 1982. It lasted ten weeks between April and June of that year, costing the lives of over 900 military personnel. In the article, Mr Carmona is asked whether the renewed attempts to rally Argentines around the Falklands deliberately coincide with low approval ratings for President Alberto Fernandez - an accusation that Mr Carmona rebuked. However, Dr Christopher Sabatini, senior research fellow at Chatham House, told Express.co., a senior research fellow for Latin America, US and the Americas Programme. Sadly Argentine governments, when they are feeling threatened or politically against the wall in terms of domestic politics, they turn to the one thing that nationalistically people will rally around the flag for, and that is the Falklands.