Falkland Islands

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 06:53 UTC

  Falklands’ ballot paper will not have any serial number or identifying marks

  

  The referendum about whether or not Falkland Islanders wish the Falkland Islands to maintain their current status as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom is less than a week away and the Registrar General has made some announcements on the March 10/11 world event.

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 06:32 UTC

  Falklands’ governor tells The Sun “Argentina keeps making stuff up”

  

  Falkland Islands Governor Nigel Haywood accused Argentina of “making stuff up” in its relentless verbal assault on the UK and the Islands. With a referendum on whether the Islanders want to remain British less than a week away, Haywood vowed to keep “pushing back” against the “extraordinary” sabre-rattling, UK’s sensationalist tabloid The Sun published.

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

  Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Another Falklands?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Chinese survey vessels go into the waters around the disputed islands and Japanese patrol ships tail them much too closely. Twice last month Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft flew into the airspace around the Japanese-controlled islands and Tokyo scrambled F-15 fighters to meet them. On the second occasion, China then sent fighters too. Can these people be serious?

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:34 UTC

  C24 president insists Falklands dispute is over sovereignty, not self determination

  

  The UN Decolonisation Committee has not received any further requests on the Falklands/Malvinas issue, and “there is no such procedure as self-determination regarding the Islands dispute”, according to the C24 president Diego Morejón Pazmiño, standing Ecuadorean ambassador before the UN.

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:06 UTC

  The “entente fugale” and the French point of view on defence of the Falklands

  

  Dubbed the “entente frugale” and criticised by some as a dangerous dilution of military sovereignty, Franco-British defence cooperation is nonetheless growing stronger. Shrinking budgets, a less indulgent United States and Europe’s diminishing military clout in the world have bolstered the two countries’ determination to work together.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  “We want sovereignty over the Malvinas, but in peace”, Cristina Fernandez tells Congress

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez again called on the UK to hold talks over the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands during her address to Congress on Friday when she delivered the ‘State of the Nation’ speech and formally opened the 131st legislative sessions.

• Friday, March 1st 2013 - 02:08 UTC

  Ban Ki-moon calls for a more inclusive dialogue on decolonization

  

  With the world undergoing a “great transition,” it is time for a new kind of inclusive dialogue about decolonization, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said, calling for fresh approaches to resolve the situations of the remaining 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories.

• 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.