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Montevideo, January 22nd 2026 - 23:36 UTC

Falkland Islands

  • Monday, March 25th 2013 - 01:26 UTC

    Falklands: 'Yes' vote means 'we don’t want to be colonized by Argentina'

    MLA Mike Summers “The vote was made and it was overwhelming”

    A delegation from the Falkland Islands recently visited Jamaica as part of a tour of North America, Central American and Caribbean countries to inform about the referendum earlier this month which resulted in a resounding 'yes' with only three 'no' votes, leaving no doubt as to their wish to remain a British Overseas Territory.

  • Monday, March 25th 2013 - 00:57 UTC

    Falklands’ dispute: Vatican sources confirm non involvement, it is a matter for sovereign states

    Cristina Fernandez with the Pope

    The Vatican’s policy of non intervention in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute between Argentina and Britain was confirmed by official sources in the Vatican, the UK ambassador to the Holy See Nigel Baker revealed to The Telegraph Sunday edition.

  • Sunday, March 24th 2013 - 03:18 UTC

    Falkland Islands’ dispute: Timerman to meet UN Ban Ki Moon this week in New York

    Ban Ki Moon has said a prevailing impression in the UN is that “people living under certain conditions should have a certain level of capacities to decide their own future”

    Argentina this coming week will be meeting in New York with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, with the support of top regional officials to renew its long-standing demand that the UK sits to discuss with Argentina the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute.

  • Saturday, March 23rd 2013 - 10:51 UTC

    Falkland Islands becomes an issue of controversy for Argentina’s federal tax revenue office

    Opposition lawmakers called for AFIP head Echegaray resignation’s saying he is ‘either stupid or a traitor’

    Argentina’s federal tax revenue office, AFIP said that trips to the Malvinas Islands, as well as expenses are included in the new 20% levy imposed on credit and debit card purchases in foreign countries, despite the fact the Falklands are considered Argentine territory, because of geopolitical reasons.

  • 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.