Malvinas: acts throughout the country to remember fallen soldiers and ex-combatants

President Mauricio Macri will receive Tuesday about a hundred ex-combatants and family members of soldiers killed during the Falklands war at Olivos residence, where a plaque will be placed in tribute to fallen combatants to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the conflict. the United Kingdom.

In Córdoba, starting at 11am, the Civic Military parade will take place at Plaza Rivadavia in Alta Córdoba.

In Olivos, the president will discover at 9 o'clock a plaque in honor of the 649 fallen soldiers in Malvinas next to the flagpole of Plaza Seca, which will be the first tribute of this type to the veterans of the presidential residence , did they inform Telam from the Secretariat for Human Rights.

"It will be a very important and emotional act, because on April 2, will add the value and significance of the strength of the humanitarian project to identify the Falklands' heroes," said the secretary for human rights. Man, Claudio Avruj.

In this regard, Avruj praised the "strong emotional impact" that the work led by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the family, which has managed to identify, so far, the remains of 112 of the 122 soldiers buried in the grave. Darwin cemetery, Malvinas.

The plaque to be placed in the presidential residence will indicate the legend "Permanent tribute of the Argentine State to its heroes of the Malvinas Islands and islands of the South Atlantic" and, for Avruj, it will be "an act of reaffirmation our commitment as a state and as a society in the Malvinas Islands ".

In addition to the President and Mr. Avruj, the meeting will include the Minister of Defense, Oscar Aguad, the highest authorities of the armed forces and chiefs of staff, as well as a hundred members of the family and veterans.

Later, from 11 am, the central act of the day will begin in Plaza San Martín, where one of the black granite plates will be replaced by the caption "An Argentine soldier only known to God" who stayed in the cemetery. Darwin for 37 years, by a tombstone bearing the name and surname of fallen soldiers identified in recent years.

Minister Aguad will participate in this event; Chancellor Jorge Faurie; the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General VGM Bari del Valle Sosa; with national officials and the authorities of the army, navy and the air force.

To these tributes will be added others, especially in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Chubut, Neuquén, Santa Fe, Corrientes, Jujuy, Santiago del Estero and Catamarca.

In Chubut, the ceremony will be presided over by Governor Mariano Arcioni, who will be taking part tonight in the town of Samiento at the beginning of the vigil, then will go to the town of Tecka, in the Chubut mountain range, where he will meet on Tuesday. groups. ex-combatants.

Santa Fe will have two tributes, one this afternoon at the Rosario National Flag Monument, with an outdoor musical show until midnight Monday and the other Tuesday at 10 o'clock on the square San Martín of the city of Reconquista, with the presence of the governor Miguel Lifschitz.

Meanwhile, in La Plata, former soldiers will gather today in Plaza Moreno, around the mural of the islands – the largest in Latin America – to light it up with lamps. and mobile phones to "pay tribute to our heroes" for this. Tuesday to do a central act on the Malvinas Square with live painting, music and activities.

Finally, the governor of Neuquén, Omar Gutiérrez, will receive the ex-combatants at the headquarters of the government on Tuesday morning and, at 11 am, will lead the main event at the Cenotaph of the Falklands, located in Miter and Chubut. Capital of Neuquén.