Tag: Falkland Islands

• Thursday, December 5th 2013 - 20:42 UTC

  Battle of the Falklands to be commemorated on Sunday 8th December

  

  The Falkland Islands will commemorate on Sunday the naval engagement of 8th December 1914 when the Royal Navy sunk with a minimum loss of life the German fleet, an event which until Liberation Day, 14 June 1982, was the most outstanding of the Islands calendar.

• Thursday, December 5th 2013 - 20:29 UTC

  Falklands granted 5.9 million Euros by Europe for economic development activities

  

  The European Commission announced on Thursday that the Falkland Islands has been allocated a sum of 5.9million Euros to support economic development activities between 2014 and 2020. The announcement of the new allocation under the European Development Fund was made at the 12th Annual OCT-EU Forum being held in Brussels this week.

• Thursday, December 5th 2013 - 05:56 UTC

  Taking a positive Falklands message to Brazil

  

  “Unthinkable, unacceptable and unsupportable” was how Joanisval Brito Goncalves, Senior Legilslative Counselor for International Affairs and Defence Issues at the Brazilian Senate, described the Argentine government’s attitude to the Falkland/ Malvinas Islands in a press conference held in Stanley on Wednesday afternoon.

• Tuesday, December 3rd 2013 - 12:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands hosts a delegation of Brazilian congress advisors

  

  A delegation of political advisors from the Brazilian Congress is currently in the Falkland Islands. The group is accompanied by Andrew Ford First Secretary FCO Brasilia.

• Tuesday, December 3rd 2013 - 04:01 UTC

  Falklands' war book '1982 and all that' will answer Argentine questions

  

  A book by John Fowler on what it was like to live through the Falkland Islands 1982 war from an Islander’s view has been made available in Argentina Translated from its British version ‘1982 and all that’ which has been available on Amazon for Kindle for some time, ‘1982: Difficult Days in the Falklands’ is soon to be available in Spanish thanks to the publishing house Winograd.

• Monday, December 2nd 2013 - 12:13 UTC

  Argentina's Malvinas claim reaffirmed by Mercosur associate member, Guyana

  

  Argentina thanked Commonwealth member Guyana for its strong support in the Malvinas Islands question and underlined the excellent bilateral relations in all fields, during the official visit of Foreign minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett to Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, November 30th 2013 - 19:49 UTC

  Panama reaffirms support for Argentina's Malvinas claim and promotes 'friendship groups' at congressional level

  

  Panama Foreign minister Fernando Núñez Fábrega underlined his country's traditional and committed support for Argentina's sovereignty claims over the Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands and their adjoining maritime spaces, an issue that was discussed during this week's visit to Buenos Aires, a special guest of his peer Hector Timerman.

• Saturday, November 30th 2013 - 07:25 UTC

  Falklands government accuses Argentina of yet another attempt to undermine the Islands economy

  

  The Falkland Islands government said on Friday that Argentina's latest illegal attempt to undermine the Islands economy is in direct contradiction with its alleged claim that it wants to establish a dialogue and is yet another effort to disrupt the lives of 3.000 people who want to live in peace and with good neighborly relations.

• Friday, November 29th 2013 - 22:06 UTC

  Falklands involved oil company expects to raise £100 million in bond offer

  

  Premier Oil expects to raise at least £100 million in a bond offer scheduled to close on 6 December. The FTSE 250 oil and gas company, with interests in the Falkland Islands, the North Sea, and South-East Asia, said its 5% sterling bonds auction has already built a book value of at least £100 million.

• Friday, November 29th 2013 - 07:08 UTC

  Falklands oil exploration exposed to jail and fines according to Argentine law

  

  Argentina has threatened oil firms seeking to operate off the Falkland Islands with 15-year jail terms, huge fines and confiscation of assets in a fresh salvo in the dispute with Britain over South Atlantic islands sovereignty. But UK reiterated that Argentine law does not apply to Falklands or British Overseas Territories.