With more than one hundred representatives and supporters attending the Island Games in the Isle of Man (from July 7 to 14th), the Falkland Islands was already dominating the headlines before they began.
British and Argentine government representatives held the 19th South Atlantic Fisheries Committee meeting in London from 14-15 June. Mr Alan Huckle, Head of the Overseas Territories Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office led the British delegation and Ambassador Santos Goñi, Head of the Foreign Ministry's Malvinas and South Atlantic Department, led the Argentine delegation.
Criticisms of the proposed permanent Argentine Monument at Darwin were voiced at a public meeting in Port Stanley, so indicating that the granting of a planning licence will be far from a formality, as first thought.