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Stories for July 2001

• Wednesday, July 11th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Island Games: No medals for Falkland (yet) but “a fabulous experience.”

  Speaking from the Isle of Man, where he is supporting his sporting compatriots at the international Island Games, Falkland Councillor Mike Summers said that although the team has so far won no medals and has suffered at least one humiliating defeat (losing at 9-0 to the Jersey football team), the games have been a great success.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Antarctic meeting in Russia

• Tuesday, July 10th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  South America News.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  “Tariff war”

• Tuesday, July 10th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Blair to visit Buenos Aires?

  Argentine diplomacy is working over time to try and arrange for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to visit Buenos Aires at the end of the month, when he will be officially meeting Brazilian president Fernando Cardoso in Brasilia

• Monday, July 9th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands navy veteran tests prototype Harrier replacement.

  A veteran Royal Navy pilot of the Falklands conflict has made the first hovering test flight in a United States prototype of an advanced strike aircraft being developed to replace the Harrier jump jet aircraft which played a vital role in the recapture of the Islands in 1982

• Monday, July 9th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands “cover-up” denied.TV focus on HMS Sheffield exocet attack.

  Hints that there has been an official cover-up over failure of the frigate HMS Sheffield to take action against incoming Argentine exocet missiles in the 1982 Falklands Conflict have been denied by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in London.
  An MOD statement declared: “There has been no tampering with evidence and no cover-up. We regard this matter as closed”..

• Friday, July 6th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  A Falklands Royal visit possible in 2002 ? 20th anniversary of war.

  It is not an impossibility that Queen Elizabeth 2nd could visit the Falklands next year to participate in celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the Liberation of the Islands, by British Forces, from Argentine occupation.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Islanders Verdict on Argentine Foreign Minister after meeting at UN.

  Returning from the annual United Nations Decolonisation Committee debate about the Falklands dispute, two Falkland councillors told the BBC World Service's Calling the Falklands that they had a surprisingly cordial and helpful conversation with the Argentine Foreign Minister, Rodriguez Giavarini.