Falklands : UK Embassy Confirms Argentine Next of Kin Visit
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 26.05.2009 (Article Archived on 09.06.2009)
In parallel with the Governor's address, the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Shan Morgan, made the following announcement at 10.30 (Falkland Islands time).
UK Embassy Confirms Argentine Next of Kin Visit
In parallel with the Governor's address, the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Shan Morgan, made the following announcement at 10.30 (Falkland Islands time).
The UK Embassy in Buenos Aires is pleased to announce that the Governments of the Argentine Republic and of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have decided to facilitate the initiative of the Commission of the Families of the Fallen to inaugurate the Memorial in Darwin Cemetery on the Falklands Islands, whose construction was envisaged under the formula on sovereignty in the Argentine-UK Joint Statement of 14 July 1999.
In this regard the next of kin will travel by air to the Falklands Islands on 3 and 10 October 2009, using the scheduled flight service of LAN Chile that was established under the above mentioned Joint Statement of July 1999.
The announcement of this important act of remembrance is to fulfil the wish of the next of kin of the Argentine Fallen to inaugurate the Memorial in the Islands and in the spirit of promoting co-operation.
The Argentine Government is expected to make a mirror statement at the same time.
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