Tag: Falkland Islands

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 23:59 UTC

  Falklands will reply to Mr Timerman next month, when the referendum, said Governor Haywood

  

  Falkland Islands governor Nigel Haywood said that the “Islanders will reply in next month’s referendum” whether Argentina could be in control of the Malvinas archipelago ‘within twenty years’, as was announced by Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman earlier this week in London.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 04:49 UTC

  Timerman in London: a scam conference that almost worked

  

  By Peter Pepper - Private conferences have long been used by pressure groups to get something they want onto the public agenda. The so-called Argentine-British Conferences were like this. They were an Argentine idea, and the so-called 'British' delegations were largely controlled by, and packed with, Falklands’ opponents in Britain. They achieved the nickname the Argentine Biased Conferences or the Anti-British Conferences. But they failed in their objective and faded away.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 04:28 UTC

  Uruguayan lawmakers confirm they will travel to Falklands for the referendum

  

  At least two Uruguayan lawmakers have confirmed to the British embassy in Montevideo that they will be travelling to the Falkland Islands next March for the referendum on the Islands political status and future. The trips are financed by the embassy and according to parliament sources in Montevideo the list could become longer.The news was published in a Montevideo weekly.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 00:19 UTC

  Uruguay Malvinas Forum will celebrate anniversary blasting March referendum

  

  This Friday the Malvinas Forum, chapter Uruguay will be celebrating its first anniversary and is expected to announce a statement strongly rejecting the coming referendum in the Falklands on the Islands political status which is scheduled for March 10/11. The meeting will be held in Maldonado where it was originally launched.

• Thursday, February 7th 2013 - 21:44 UTC

  Argentina says Falklands’ issue “smells too much like petroleum

  

  Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said on Thursday that the British government’s position on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands issue “smells too much like petroleum”, revealing that UK’s biggest interest in keeping the invaded archipelago is due to the potential oil findings.

• Thursday, February 7th 2013 - 09:12 UTC

  Audacity and tolerance: Who can imagine Hague publicly lobbying the Falklands’ case in Buenos Aires?

  

  An Argentine columnist has found two great virtues: audacity and tolerance in Foreign Minister Hector Timerman current incursion in London to lobby and argue in favour of the most intransigent of Argentina’s position on the Falklands’ dispute.

• Thursday, February 7th 2013 - 09:04 UTC

  “There is no such thing as Falkland Islanders: they are British citizens in disputed islands”

  

  There is no such thing as Falkland Islanders, the Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman insisted during a press conference in London on Wednesday, claiming they are British citizens living in disputed islands. He claimed the United Nations only acknowledges two parties in the territorial dispute: UK and Argentina.

• Wednesday, February 6th 2013 - 18:38 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmakers and Hague meet and regret Timerman’s ‘empty chair’

  

  Falkland Islands lawmakers met on Wednesday morning with Foreign Secretary William Hague and regretted the absence of Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman but also understand Argentina’s deep concern with “our (March) referendum, which is why they spend so much time dismissing it”.

• Wednesday, February 6th 2013 - 06:00 UTC

  “Timerman can go to bed and dream of owning the Falklands”, but reality is different

  

  Foreign Minister Timerman can go to bed tonight and dream of owning the Falklands in twenty years if he wishes, but there’s not much reality to it, pointed out a Falklands’ lawmaker reacting to the Argentine minister’s statements on Tuesday to the UK media.

• Wednesday, February 6th 2013 - 05:19 UTC

  MPs call on Timerman “to listen to the people who live in the Falklands”

  

  After a first day of mixed results, Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman Malvinas lobbying in London is looking ahead to a more friendly, less combative two-day scenario at the Argentine embassy with the ‘Pro-dialogue’ group where he plans to promote Argentina’s Malvinas sovereignty claims that reject point blank any dialogue or the right to self determination for the people of the Falklands.