Falkland Islands

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 14:13 UTC

  Falklands’ situation attracts attention from China involved in Far East Asia islands dispute

  

  Interest in the Falkland Islands’ dispute with Argentina, assimilated to the current Senkakus/Diayous islands situation in Asia apparently has not been limited to the quotes made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before the Japanese Parliament but also in another minor experience precisely in the Falklands and involving the Editor of the Penguin News, the local weekly newspaper of the Islands.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 14:06 UTC

  Japan appeals to Thatcher Falklands’ resolve quotes in islands dispute with China

  

  Japan's prime minister on Thursday quoted comments by former British premier Margaret Thatcher about the Falklands War with Argentina as he spoke about Tokyo's acrimonious islands’ dispute with China.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 03:41 UTC

  Cameron accuses Labour candidate of supporting Argentina during the Falklands’ war

  

  Ahead of a much disputed by election at Eastleigh, Hampshire, Prime Minister David Cameron had a chance to make an impression during the PM questions on Wednesday accusing Labour hopeful John O’Farrell of supporting terrorism and Argentina because he wanted Great Britain to lose the Falklands’ war.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 20:14 UTC

  Cameron, ‘the most robust PM in the Falklands’ issue in the last 30 years’, says Professor Dodds

  

  Britain went to war over the Falkland Islands over thirty years ago when the Argentine military invaded the Islands, but the issue of sovereignty disputed by Argentina has never really gone away. Germany’s Deutsche Welle looks at the current UK government's policy towards the Falklands and the coming referendum, in an interview with Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2013 - 00:10 UTC

  Argentina accused UK of sending submarines with nuclear weapons capacity to the Falklands

  

  Argentina accused the UK of displacement of submarines with nuclear weapons capacity in the Falkland Islands, violating international treaties that established the South Atlantic zone as free of nuclear arms. The claim was made on Monday at the United Nations Disarmament Conference in Geneva.

• Monday, February 25th 2013 - 20:21 UTC

  Kerry refuses to comment on Falklands’ referendum; US position remains unchanged

  

  Starting in London his first trip overseas as the new US Secretary of State, John Kerry kept strictly to US policy on the Falkland Islands and refused to comment on the coming referendum when Islanders are expected to decide on their political status and future.

• Monday, February 25th 2013 - 06:36 UTC

  Argentina celebrates Africa’s 54 countries support for Malvinas sovereignty

  

  Africa’s fifty four countries joined South America “in recognizing the legitimate sovereignty rights of Argentina over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the adjoining maritime spaces”, announced the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a communiqué in reference to the so called Declaration of Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea.

• Monday, February 25th 2013 - 06:13 UTC

  UK media says Iran/Argentina accord could hide missile project with Falklands’ range

  

  British tabloid The Sunday Times indicated on Sunday that the Iran-Argentina accord on the investigation of the AMIA bombing case could also hide a joint missile development project. Furthermore, the paper assured “Argentina is developing missile technology that could threaten the Falkland Islands.”

• Saturday, February 23rd 2013 - 06:26 UTC

  Hague to discuss US position on Falklands’ referendum with Kerry

  

  Foreign Secretary William Hague will discuss the United States' position on the Falkland Islands with Secretary of State John Kerry following reports that Washington will not recognise the result of next month's referendum.

• Saturday, February 23rd 2013 - 06:22 UTC

  Russian cruise, once frequent Falklands visitor, adrift in the North Atlantic

  

  A Russian cruise ship Lyubov Orlova, at one time a frequent summer visitor to the Falklands, abandoned and adrift in the North Atlantic has been located about 2.400 kilometres off the west coast of Ireland.