Falkland Islands

• Monday, September 28th 2026 - 08:00 UTC

  Falklands at Labour Conference in Liverpool

  

  British political parties are holding their annual round of conferences and Labour, in government, has chosen the city of Liverpool for a gathering that started on Sunday, 27 September and will last for three days until 30th September.

• Monday, September 28th 2026 - 07:51 UTC

  The Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign

  

  An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other British overseas territories, among them the Falklands. The piece, by journalist Daniel Johnson, is an argument of opinion rather than a report of new facts.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 23:26 UTC

  Falklands Assembly responds to Argentina's campaign: “This Assembly remains calm”

  

  The chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford, said on Thursday during a sitting of the body that there is “nothing new” in the claims made this week, and that the institution “remains calm” and steadfast in defending the right of the archipelago's residents to determine their own future.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 21:35 UTC

  The Falklands economic development agency appoints Josh Smith as managing director

  

  The Falkland Islands Development Corporation, the archipelago's economic development agency, announced on Friday the appointment of Josh Smith as its new managing director, subject to final relocation arrangements. He will succeed Zachary Franklin, who will conclude his tenure in December.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 21:28 UTC

  Milei and Netanyahu discussed the Falklands in his only bilateral in New York

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about twenty minutes on Thursday at United Nations headquarters, in what was his only bilateral meeting with a head of state or government during his trip to New York. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed they discussed the Falklands.

• Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 23:47 UTC

  Punta Arenas/Falklands maritime links are based on history, economics and geography

  

  The announced maritime and trade link between Punta Arenas in Chile and the Falkland Islands has been strongly argued and supported by the main newspaper from the Chilean austral city on the Magellan Strait and capital of the Magallanes Region.

• Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 10:59 UTC

  UK replies to Milei: “not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”

  

  The United Kingdom has asked for a written statement to be placed in the official record of the UN General Assembly in response to Argentine President Javier Milei's address, saying Buenos Aires' conduct over the Falklands “is wholly incompatible with the principles established in the United Nations Charter and is not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2026 - 17:54 UTC

  Milei at the UN: “The Malvinas are a national cause for us”

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to act over what he described as unilateral British actions in the Falklands, and accused the organisation of having “decided to look the other way” on the dispute. “The Malvinas are a national cause for us,” he said, repeating the phrase twice at the start of his address.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2026 - 09:49 UTC

  Burnham at the UN: “the rights of British territories to remain British”

  

  British Prime Minister Andy Burnham placed the Falklands among the challenges to the rule of law in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered on Tuesday evening in New York, setting them in the same sentence as Russia.

• Tuesday, September 22nd 2026 - 19:45 UTC

  Burnham says he raised the Falklands with Trump at their first meeting

  

  British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Tuesday that he raised the question of the Falklands with US President Donald Trump during their first meeting, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. “The Falklands we mentioned. And you were good enough to listen to us on those issues,” he told reporters. Trump made no public response on the archipelago.