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Invited to speak at the National Assembly, the Ambassador of Argentina to France interrupted his speech because of a map of the Falkland Islands as British territory. An incident that comes...
The map presented, after the French translation of the Falkland Islands, the British place name 'Malvinas' and the...
Ian Sienecki was invited to speak at the Foreign Relations Committee in the French National Assembly about the bilateral Franco-Argentine relationship and it almost ended in a diplomatic incident
An Argentine diplomat refused to speak in the French Parliament before a map showing Malvinas as British Ian Sienecki interrupted his exhibition at the National Assembly of France and asked to cover a map identifying the Malvinas Islands as United Kingdom territory. The Argentine ambassador to France, Ian Sienecki, refused [...] The entry Argentina Ambassador refuses to speak in the French Parliament before a map showing the Malvinas Islands as…
Ian Sienecki interrupted an exhibition in the National Assembly by refusing to speak in front of a map showing the Malvinas Islands as British territory, in defence of Argentine sovereignty.
A simple yellow sticky note was enough to deactivate, at least momentarily, a potential diplomatic incident in the heart of the French legislature. The episode occurred on Wednesday in the National Assembly of France, during a hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, when the Argentine ambassador to that country, Ian Sienecki, refused to begin his presentation by warning that behind his seat was displayed a map in which the Malvinas Islands …
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