Falkland Islands

• Saturday, February 9th 2013 - 08:41 UTC

  HMS Edinburgh leaves the Falklands for the last time

  

  Known as the ‘Fortress of the Sea’, HMS Edinburgh is the largest and the last Type 42 destroyer to serve in the Royal Navy. She finished her six month tour of the South Atlantic Islands this week and is due to be decommissioned in June, but before heading north again Falkland Islands residents were given the opportunity to have a peek on board.

• Saturday, February 9th 2013 - 08:38 UTC

  Financial Times gets it wrong on Falklands and Gibraltar ‘trilateral’ dialogue

  

  Chief Minister Fabian Picardo this week wrote to the Financial Times after the respected financial daily made a glaring error about Gibraltar in an editorial column centred on Argentina.

• Saturday, February 9th 2013 - 00:34 UTC

  Major Commonwealth parliamentary conference opens Tuesday in the Falklands

  

  The 43rd British Islands and Mediterranean Region Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which is being hosted by the Falkland Islands for the second time will begin next Tuesday and will convene 37 delegates with Canada and Anguilla as observers.

• Saturday, February 9th 2013 - 00:07 UTC

  “Islanders exist: here we are”, the toast at Falkland House in London

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker Dick Sawle invited to toast for “the existence of the Islanders” during a reception at Falkland House in London, on Thursday evening, at the end of a hectic but productive week of contacts, interviews and intense lobbying for the Islands and the coming March referendum.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 23:59 UTC

  Falklands will reply to Mr Timerman next month, when the referendum, said Governor Haywood

  

  Falkland Islands governor Nigel Haywood said that the “Islanders will reply in next month’s referendum” whether Argentina could be in control of the Malvinas archipelago ‘within twenty years’, as was announced by Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman earlier this week in London.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 04:49 UTC

  Timerman in London: a scam conference that almost worked

  

  By Peter Pepper - Private conferences have long been used by pressure groups to get something they want onto the public agenda. The so-called Argentine-British Conferences were like this. They were an Argentine idea, and the so-called 'British' delegations were largely controlled by, and packed with, Falklands’ opponents in Britain. They achieved the nickname the Argentine Biased Conferences or the Anti-British Conferences. But they failed in their objective and faded away.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 04:28 UTC

  Uruguayan lawmakers confirm they will travel to Falklands for the referendum

  

  At least two Uruguayan lawmakers have confirmed to the British embassy in Montevideo that they will be travelling to the Falkland Islands next March for the referendum on the Islands political status and future. The trips are financed by the embassy and according to parliament sources in Montevideo the list could become longer.The news was published in a Montevideo weekly.

• Friday, February 8th 2013 - 00:19 UTC

  Uruguay Malvinas Forum will celebrate anniversary blasting March referendum

  

  This Friday the Malvinas Forum, chapter Uruguay will be celebrating its first anniversary and is expected to announce a statement strongly rejecting the coming referendum in the Falklands on the Islands political status which is scheduled for March 10/11. The meeting will be held in Maldonado where it was originally launched.

• Thursday, February 7th 2013 - 21:44 UTC

  Argentina says Falklands’ issue “smells too much like petroleum

  

  Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said on Thursday that the British government’s position on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands issue “smells too much like petroleum”, revealing that UK’s biggest interest in keeping the invaded archipelago is due to the potential oil findings.

• Thursday, February 7th 2013 - 09:12 UTC

  Audacity and tolerance: Who can imagine Hague publicly lobbying the Falklands’ case in Buenos Aires?

  

  An Argentine columnist has found two great virtues: audacity and tolerance in Foreign Minister Hector Timerman current incursion in London to lobby and argue in favour of the most intransigent of Argentina’s position on the Falklands’ dispute.