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Falkland Islands

  • Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 14:22 UTC

    Falkland Islands Referendum, White Puffs of Smoke?

    Celebrations at Arch Green after the referendum results, but “I’ve got to work in the morning” (Pic by T. Chater)

    By Professor Klaus Dodds & Dr Alasdair Pinkerton - The celebrations on Arch Green, outside the Falkland Islands’ Stanley Cathedral, on Monday 11 March, revealed the strength of emotion and passion that has circulated around this referendum process, ever since it was announced in June 2012.

  • Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 07:14 UTC

    Falkland Islands’ referendum an act of value, say Uruguayan Parliamentarians

    Lawmakers Jose Carlos Cardoso and Jaime Trobo interviewed in the Falklands

    “I was surprised that such a small community with so few human resources to organise an electoral act did things so well, so properly, in conformity with international standards. This was a demonstration of a desire that this should be an act of value, not only in terms of its effects in the Falklands themselves, but also for the international image of a legitimate process.”

  • Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:59 UTC

    Falklands’ invasion: documents show Conservatives were divided on how to react

    Thatcher’s draft letter to President Reagan reveals a refusal to compromise

    Senior Tories were initially sceptical about going to war over the Falkland Islands, newly released papers from Margaret Thatcher's personal archive show. A note from the whips' office following Argentina's 1982 invasion reported solid support for military action from some Conservative MPs, but others were privately hostile.

  • Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:10 UTC

    Why the Falklands matter

    “Falkland Islanders do not exist” and the referendum “a meeting of squatters”, is the message from Buenos Aires

    By James Kirchick (*) - Americans might wonder why they should care about the fate of a tiny set of islands closer to Antarctica than to Florida, where penguins outnumber humans by more than 300 to 1. But the fate of the Falkland Islands — whose citizens expressed a near-unanimous desire to remain part of the United Kingdom this month — will set an important precedent for the universal principle of self-determination

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 08:13 UTC

    For Argentina’s tax-revenue office Afip, Malvinas are a foreign territory, most probably British

    Tourists landing in the Falklands: only dollars, sterling or Euros, please

    Despite persistent claims before the world, and his Holiness, that the Malvinas Islands are Argentine, for the tax office in Buenos Aires in practical terms they really are a foreign country, according to the latest resolution which applies an additional fee of 20% to tickets and overseas expenditure with Argentine debit or credit cards.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 07:31 UTC

    Pope Francis can do without Cristina Fernandez

    By Jimmy Burns (*) - This is the same President that has viewed Jorge Bergoglio as an opponent when he served as Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires and has allowed her allies in the Argentine media to try and wreck his reputation by claiming, unjustly, he was complicit in the military regime’s dirty war.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 07:23 UTC

    Falklands: OAS sceptical about possible mediation from the Pope: he’s Argentine

    Insulza said that in no way can you compare the 1978 situation and John Paul II mediation

    The Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza is sceptical about a possible mediation from Pope Francis between Argentina and the UK over the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute as was requested by President Cristina Fernandez.

  • Tuesday, March 19th 2013 - 02:27 UTC

    Falklands: UK recalls that Vatican policy is they have no role to play in the dispute

    PM Cameron earlier in the week referred to the referendum saying “the white smoke over the Falklands was pretty clear”

    The United Kingdom played down the request made by Argentine President Cristina Fernández to Pope Francis to intervene in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute and recalled the recent referendum with an overwhelming support from Islanders to remain a British overseas territory.

  • Monday, March 18th 2013 - 21:51 UTC

    Falkland Islands’ post referendum musings and the ‘Britishness’ feeling

    Falkland Islanders celebrate and thank CFK for a wonderful day (Photo: T. Chater)

    Writing for Penguin News its Deputy Editor, John Fowler, takes stock in the wake of the recent referendum in the Falkland Islands which resulted in a 92%turn out and 99.8% of voters opting to maintain the Islands current status as an overseas territory of Great Britain.

  • Monday, March 18th 2013 - 18:49 UTC

    Falklands’ dispute: ‘the Vatican is no arbitrage tribunal for international affairs’

    Rodolfo Terragno, Argentina is totally politicized and sick with politics

    The Pope has no reason to intervene in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, since the Vatican is not an international tribunal and there is no imminence of a war, according to Rodolfo Terragno an Argentine lawyer and former head of cabinet, minister and congressman.