Foreign Office flies Gibraltar flag on Rock’s Day; last June 14 it was the Falklands’ flag
The Foreign Office will fly the Gibraltar flag on Monday, National Day in its building along Whitehall. Foreign Office ministers David Lidington and Mark Simmonds, respectively the ministers for Europe and the Overseas Territories, have said they welcome the raising of the Gibraltar Flag over the FCO in Whitehall to mark Gibraltar Day.
“From now on, the flags of each UK Overseas Territory will be flown over the FCO one day every year, to mark a significant day in each of their respective histories,” said an F&CO spokesman.
“I send my greetings and best wishes to all Gibraltarians ahead of Gibraltar National Day. It is a day to celebrate the people of Gibraltar, their community and identity. It is fitting that Gibraltar’s flag should be flown annually in London to mark this occasion,” said Mr Lidington, who has responsibility for the EU and Gibraltar.
Simmonds said he was pleased that the FCO will be “celebrating this new era of positive engagement between the UK and the Territories by flying their flags over our building in London. The Government is determined to show our commitment to this relationship in a year which has seen a number of important landmarks, including the publication of the White Paper”.
On 14 June, the flag of the Falkland Islands was flown over the FCO, 10 Downing Street and the Department for Communities and Local Government to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Islands’ liberation. The flags of all Territories were flown as part of the Diamond Jubilee pageant, and will be featured in future ceremonies of State.
The UK and the 14 Territories share a special and unique bond, with shared historical links that go back more than four centuries. In his foreword to the White Paper, the Prime Minister affirmed that the Territories remain ‘an integral part of Britain’s life and history’, an F&CO spokesman said.
There are fourteen UK Overseas Territories, eleven of which have permanent populations:
Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands are all in the Caribbean. Bermuda is in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The Falkland Islands and the Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha are located in the South Atlantic. Pitcairn, with a population of less than 60 people, is the only Territory in the Pacific.
Gibraltar is the only Territory in the EU. The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekilia in Cyprus are an Overseas Territory but are not formally part of the EU.
The remaining Territories, i.e. the British Antarctic Territory, the British Indian Ocean Territory, and South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (in the South Atlantic) do not have permanent populations.
The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekilia will not be included in the regular flag flying programme, but will continue to be represented by the Union Jack flag.
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Another bastion of British colonial imperialism....in the 21st century.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8
Hurrah! Gibraltar was legally given to the UK for all time and there's nothing Spain can do about it now, yay!
Part one orders the Practice of Cousin jokes will cease. :)
I think a nation that is at ease with itself is more than capable of making fun of itself. And of course, the opposite is true.......
Ahh poor old dufferuptheduff sounds a bit lonely. Why not give BK a shot, he's still available for intercourse.... so I hear.
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Argentina hasn't reached that level of maturity. What I like about Argentinians is that they take themselves so seriously and are so easy to wind up.
To correct and enlighten you. I was actually born on a Sovereign Base Area in 1984 in West Germany. If I had not I would of been classed as German Citizen and not a British One even though both my parents are British. Many of these used to be BMH or British miliatry Hospitals. The SBA's that allow service men/women and their familys to live udner British law and not foreign law which is very importent especially in areas where British Law protects freedoms which may not necessarly be in the host nation.
Many of these areas still exisit in the former West Germany and are used as training grounds.
As I understand it, SBAs are a function of the relinquishment of sovereignty over the surrounding territory. In Germany is still a matter of the Status of Forces Agreement: the Allies never claimed sovereignty only administrative powers. In Cyprus on the other hand, UK retained, by agreement, sovereignty over ESBA and WSBA.
Should FI ever opt for Independence and be granted it by UK, MPA and Mare Harbour might also become SBAs under the terms of a secession agreement. Of course, Argentina would be likely not to recognise either and neither might the rest of Latin America. Interestingly, this would create something of a localised parallel with the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
If you think of it like an embassy it shouldn't hurt your brain too much.
Thank you I was aware that the SBA are a function of the relinquishment of sovereignty over the sorrounding area. It was my impression they operated very similar to the way in which embassy, consulates and foreign missions operate i.e. within the fenceline so to say they are considered under the law of the nation and not the host nation.
Possibily just badly stated but thank you for the clarrification.
Thinking about it, in Germany if a crime was committed by a non-Brit/SOFA individual on a base or training area it was investigated under German jurisdiction. On the SBAs everyone was fair game for the regulators of the SBP, RAF P&SS and RMP SIB.
Sure the spirits weren't for you and the toys for Dad like they were in my day?
I was once told my Dad when I was older that there was a kind of unoffical rule on the SBA-s that a crime commited on the abse by a Brit was usual dealt with RMP's however if a crime was commited outside the base they woulkd nomaly be turned over to gemany police for serious matters but minor matters they were usualy happy to let RMPs deal with it knowing that milatry justice was usual stricter than the civilan version. But I was only young when i lived there.
The Foreign Office
Will never fly the argie flag,
And you don’t even have to think on it .lol
damm thieves.
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Sep 10th, 2012 - 07:09 pm
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And they should give it back to Uruguay,
damm thieves.
AHAHAHHA DO not worry pricks.Uruguay and Argentina will become one.And the brits pirates kicked out from the SA....together with lordy!
for Prince Harry unrestrained sex indulgence
Official. You heard it here. Argentina will take over Uruguay.
I haven't heard it in other parts of Argentina.
Thirty years after the end of the Falklands War, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has launched a diplomatic campaign to gain control of the islands of such breathtaking hypocrisy she makes Jimmy Carr look like Martin Bell.At the UN, in the breaks of the latest G20 summit, every time she opens her mouth it seems, she’s been accusing Britain of naked colonialism.. demanding we hand the islands, and the 3000 British citizens who live there, over to her.Colonialism – that’s rich, coming from a country of European immigrants whose national policy has been to wipe out all trace of the people they snatched it from.I spent three months there during the Falklands War. Lovely food. Strange there are no black or brown people.Argentina’s 97% white, according the census.Wonder what happened to the Indian tribes who once flourished on the Pampas? Well, what do you know; they were deliberately exterminated in a series of genocidal military operations in the 19th century.Wonder what happened to those strange little folk Darwin found down in Tierra del Fuego? “Short, round, oily creatures, four feet fully grown, mostly stark naked despite the intense cold, with a curious talent for mimicry”, was how he described them. Not anymore. They were declared vermin and a pound was paid for every decapitated head.Wonder what happened to all those black African slaves – more than a third of Argentina’s population at one time. Let me tell you. Thousands upon thousands of black men were forcibly recruited into the army, packed into the front line, deliberately used as cannon fodder in bloody campaigns against the natives and the neighbours. The black women and children either succumbed to disease or were simply assimilated into the floods of Italian and Spanish incomers. Inevitably, it all goes horribly wrong at regular intervals and they have to find a way of distracting the mob on the street.
Says it all really.
Prince Harry helicopter (chop) is named Apache as a reminder that the USA killed Apache indians.
Prince Harry support the killing in the Middle East....with his Apache named helicopter
Prince Harry likes the USA decision to kill thousands of Apache indians and pilot his “chop” with the name of Apache indians killed by the USA.
Of course, Prince Harry don't care about the name Apache.
He loves Las Vegas NV USA wild parties!
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Prince Harry another wimp!
two become one.??
just like the spice girls no doubt lol.
two become one.??It is going to the natural state for the former viceroyalty....
MICHAEL BUERK ON ARGENTINA’S ‘BREATHTAKING HYPOCRISY’
And comming from lordy...it is a garantee of lies!!
Simple, it’s called guilt by assocaition, or more commonly the standard Lefttard tactic of if you fling enough shit, some will eventually stick. The left and their warming alarmists comrades call us Climate Change Deniers, the link being with Holocaust denial. Quite where they get off linking the greatest human tradegy of the 20th Century with a disbelief in junk science, is anyone’s guess.
Enough is enough, we pay for the BBC, we pay this idiot Buerk’s salary:
toryaardvark.com/2011/02/12/bbcs-michael-buerk-the-loathesome-corner-with-paedophiles-and-climate-change-deniers/#more-12932
Argentina and Uruguay will never become one. Our accents, music and football may seem similar to foreigners, but we are completely different and always have been. One day in the not-too-distant future, if the population of Argentina comes to its senses, you, Malvinero, may well find yourself seeking political asylum in Uruguay, like so many of your fellow-countrymen in the past.
Tourists speeding not wearing motorbike helmets.
Farmers driving without lights or stupidly overloaded loads
im greatly surprised that we have not sold ot off to the Americans or the inmighty EU.
SBA police, remember them well, buggers always use to hide behind bushes on the main drag leading up to Akrotiri, with their speed guns! Ah happy memories.
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