Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner defended her decision to cooperate with Iran in investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. “What I want to avoid … is the pain of the [victims’] families and the country’s shame by finding the path to break the deadlock,” de Kirchner said in a speech Thursday,…
Argentina’s government rejected the Israeli government’s summons of its ambassador in order to explain the memorandum of understanding signed between Argentina and Iran advancing the investigation of 1994 AMIA bombing case. “The attack was suffered by the people of our country on July 18 and did not involve any Israeli citizen. The victims were mostly…
World Jewish groups denounced plans by Argentina and Iran to form a truth commission to investigate the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that Argentine courts say was sponsored by Iran. The commission, announced during the weekend, was seen as a minor diplomatic victory for Iran as it fights a U.S.-led…
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi signed an agreement to form an independent commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, AMIA. According the agreement both countries will create a “Commission of Truth”, consisting of five independent judges, none of whom will be from…
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa compared the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center which killed 85 people to “NATO bombings of Libya.” Correa made the remarks Tuesday during a television interview with Argentina’s C5N news channel. Correa was in the country to receive an award from the Universidad Nacional de la Plata. He made the…
Argentina’s Foreign Ministry rejected a request from the Jewish community and survivors of the AMIA Jewish center bombing for information about current negotiations with Iran over the case. The ministry’s attorney, Agustin Medrano, said late last week in refusing the request made through the judiciary that “as a process of diplomatic negotiations between States, the…
The “Bread of Memory” campaign to commemorate the 1994 bomb attack on the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires won the Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Award. The award to Ogilvy & Mather Argentina, which developed the campaign, was announced by Yahoo! Argentina on Nov. 9. The campaign launched on July 2012 to commemorate the bombing…
Three days of negotiations between Argentina and Iran over the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center have been “very positive,” Argentina’s Foreign Minister Hector Timerman announced. The statement came Wednesday at the Government House after three days of meetings between authorities of both nations at the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. “ “The…
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