Falkland Islands

• Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  South Georgia launches Protect, Sustain, Inspire as part of its non native plant management strategy

  

  The control and management of non-native species is a key factor in ensuring that the island of South Georgia continues to be an ecosystem in recovery. Under the Protect, Sustain, Inspire framework, the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) has committed to comprehensive invasive plant management.

• Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 08:06 UTC

  HMS Forth, permanent presence in the Falklands, and South Atlantic naval guardian

  

  HMS Forth, naval guardians of the Falklands have spoken of their pride of patrolling the Islands at keeping the eternal flame of 1982 burning. As such they joined the Falklands' fortieth anniversary of liberation and end of the war, on 14 June together with RAF and Army personnel, VIPs and Islanders marking Liberation Day. June 14 is a public holiday in the Falklands since the Argentine surrender 40 years ago and was commemorated with a memorial service, parade and reception in Stanley.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  “People everywhere have a right to decide their own future,” PM Johnson at Falklands' Liberation ceremony

  

  At a ceremony Tuesday morning held at Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum, British prime minister Boris Johnson praised the daring bravery of Veterans, recalling that on the very day, exactly forty years ago, British soldiers entered Stanley and liberated the Falkland Islands from foreign occupation. And since Liberation, the Falkland Islands have lived and thrived in peace and freedom looking into the future.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Falklands ceremony and parade at Liberation Memorial on the 40th anniversary

  

  Hundreds turned out in Stanley on Tuesday to follow events marking the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands from the Argentine occupation in 1982.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  “We reject any questions over the Falklands' right to self determination,” Foreign secretary Liz Truss

  

  British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss sent a strong message in support of the Falkland Islands people right to self determination on the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands Liberation, 14 June 1982, while at the same time recalling the effort and sacrifices of the troops sent to ensure that aggression could not succeed.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:57 UTC

  Falklands War: end of hostilities, General Menendez surrenders to Major General Jeremy Moore

  

  With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict was effectively over and at 2100 hours on the 14th June 1982 the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, General Mario Menendez, surrendered to Major General Jeremy Moore.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  That’s a fine mess you got out of, Stanley

  

  By Graham Bound for MercoPress – Images of Stanley captured in 1982 compared with photos taken from the same vantage points 40 years on, show a town – now a city – transformed.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  The status of 'city' granted to Stanley by the Queen, another Argentine complaint in the next C24, June 23

  

  Next June 23 Argentina will renew its request before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, for the United Kingdom to resume negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute, which have been suspended for forty years following the South Atlantic conflict.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 08:25 UTC

  Falklands issues 50p coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth

  

  A brand new 50p coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been issued on behalf of the Falkland Islands government, by the Pobjoy Mint.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 23:45 UTC

  Timeline: 14th June 1982 – Democracy restored to the Falkland Islands

  

  On 02nd April 1982 Argentine Forces invaded the Falkland Islands. Patrick Watts, who was Head of Falklands Radio, broadcast a marathon 11 hours non-stop description of the events as they unfolded. He maintained a British presence in the Radio Station for most of the 74 days of Argentine occupation. In this article, he provides a personal account of his recollections of the day that British Forces liberated the Falklands.