Falkland Islands

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:58 UTC

  Argentine government picks on Swire interview to attack opposition leaders

  

  Argentine cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich claimed that UK's preference to talk about the Falklands/Malvinas dispute with opposition presidential hopefuls, clearly means that “these leaders are willing to a greater flexibility regarding foreign interests in the dispute”.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:12 UTC

  “Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands to Britain”

  

  Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands mean to Britain, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after holding last-ditch talks on the region with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry.

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 10:15 UTC

  Falklands' referendum a year ago remembered at the Australian parliament

  

  One year on from the Falkland Islands' referendum and public diplomacy efforts are paying dividends according to Members of Legislative Assembly Mike Summers and Michael Poole, reports the latest edition of the Penguin News.

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 09:18 UTC

  Falkland Islanders right to self determination reaffirmed by Minister Swire

  

  Foreign Office minister for Latin America Hugo Swire MP, who recently visited the Falklands, sent a letter to Falkland Islanders thanking the warm reception and congratulating them on their strong sense of identity and community. The letter was published in this Friday's edition of the Penguin News.

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 09:08 UTC

  Falklands focused on a multi-year plan of mine clearance

  

  Demining work did not take place this summer in the Falkland Islands, “because efforts were focused on agreeing a multi-year plan for the next round of mine clearance operations,” Member of Legislative Assembly Mike Summers stated this week.

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 08:36 UTC

  Timerman happy with the way he is running Malvinas policy

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said he must be doing the right things regarding the Falklands/Malvinas issue because the Foreign Office prefers to talk to members of the opposition.

• Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 22:51 UTC

  UK prefers to discuss Malvinas with Massa or Macri says Swire, according to Telam

  

  British Minister of State for the Foreign Office Hugo Swire has stated London would rather sit at the negotiating table with Argentine opposition presidential hopefuls Sergio Massa or Mauricio Macri to discuss Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty.

• Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 05:52 UTC

  Falklands, trade, Mercosur/EU, oil and gas, in Swire's agenda in Uruguay

  

  Bilateral trade, Mercosur/EU talks, oil and gas cooperation, and Falkland Islands, plus some audacious comments on the coming World Cup match Uruguay/England, were some of the issues addressed by Foreign Office minister for Latin-American Hugo Swire during his one day visit to Uruguay on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, March 12th 2014 - 07:49 UTC

  Ecuador's Lasso Mendoza elected chair of the 2014 Decolonization Committee

  

  Ecuador' Xavier Lasso Mendoza was elected by 'acclamation' as Chair of the 2014 session of the Special Committee on Decolonization together with Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez (Cuba), Vandi Chidi Minah (Sierra Leone) and Desra Percaya (Indonesia), as Vice-Chairs, and Bashar Ja’afari (Syria), as Rapporteur, according to the UN release.

• Tuesday, March 11th 2014 - 06:28 UTC

  Falklands weekly says Argentina's call for dialogue and respect is 'farcical'

  

  The Falkland Islands latest Penguin News editorial picks on the Chagos Islanders controversy surfaced by Ambassador Alicia Castro and laments that Argentina insists that Falkland Islanders 'are a non people entitled to nothing', but on the other hand had it not been “for the Argentine act of aggression that shone a spotlight on our existence as a population, we too might have ended up a people without a place”.