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Stories for July 2000

• Saturday, July 15th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News from Stanley.

• Friday, July 14th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  World Cup 2002 - 20 Stadiums required.

  With the 10 South American Countries due to play the next round of Qualifying matches in anticipation of the 2002 World Cup this week, (18th & 19th July) FIFA the World Governing body have shelved plans to stage two 'Mini-World Cups' with the Korean and Japanese winners meeting in the final at Yokohama in Japan as once envisaged.

• Thursday, July 13th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  UK Re-Assurance and Praise for Falklands; Minister's Vigorous Endorsement of Self-Determination.

  In a robust re-affirmation of British sovereignty of the Falklands Islands and continuing military defence of the Islanders' security, the British Foreign Office Minister responsible for South American issues, Mr John Battle, MP, said Britain's 21st Century partnership with the Islands for progress and prosperity must be founded on “Falklanders deciding their own future, self-determination”.

• Thursday, July 13th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  South America News.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  G24 Calls for Sovereignty Negotiations.

  With just a couple of days before the first anniversary of the Argentine-British July 14th. Statement, Argentina's Foreign Secretary Adalberto Rodríguez Giavarini addressing the United Nations Decolonisation Committee in New York clearly outlined the new administration's policy towards the Falkland Islands and officially buried Guido Di Tella's Islanders seduction policy.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands could have 60-billion barrels of Offshore Oil and Fisheries Industry will expand.

  A unique Falkland Islands Government Forum on the scope for economic development and investment opportunities has opened in London with optimistic assessments for further offshore oil exploration and for expansion of an already highly successful fishing industry. The Forum ( on July 12) entitled “Sustaining a Secure Future”, attracted more than 125 delegates, including technical experts, businessmen and potential investors, academics, politicians and journalists.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Poachers in troubles.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Economic Forum: “Sustaining a Secure Future”

  In a strong re-assertion of its confidence in the future of the Falkland Islands, its Government has organised a major Forum in London on the scope for economic development and investment opportunities.

• Monday, July 10th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine Bomb Squad Report; Gibraltar Raid to Blow Up British Warship.

  An intriguing report that an Argentine special forces bomb squad was arrested in the Spanish town of Cadiz on a secret mission to blow up a British warship and a support vessel in Gibraltar harbour during the 1982 Falklands Conflict has appeared in the London Sunday Times newspaper.

• Monday, July 10th 2000 - 21:00 UTC

  Lord Levy's Mystery Latin America Mission ;Newspaper Rejects UK Government Denials.

  A denial by the British Government that Prime Minister Blair's personal envoy, Lord Levy, was to have talks in Argentina and Chile on a now postponed visit to South America has been challenged by the British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, which carried the original report a week previously.