Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, January 29th 2013 - 05:58 UTC

  Letter from Chavez calls for regional unit, supports Cuba and condemns UK on the Falklands

  

  Vice-president Nicolas Maduro, read an eleven page letter he said was written by ailing President Hugo Chavez in which the Venezuelan leader calls for Latinamerican unit, praises Cuba’s chairmanship of CELAC group and takes time to support Argentina’s claims over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

• Tuesday, January 29th 2013 - 03:42 UTC

  South Falklands gas condensate discovery in ‘technically and commercially viable”

  

  Hydrocarbons exploration company Borders and Southern Petroleum announced on Monday that the development of its gas condensate discovery in the Falkland Islands is commercially viable. B&S made its Darwin (East-West) discovery in April and has been carrying out tests to determine the nature of its find.

• Tuesday, January 29th 2013 - 03:02 UTC

  Are Falkland Islanders the Mapuches of the South Atlantic?

  

  By John Fowler - Frequently controversial newspaper columnist, Matthew Parris, who was a member of the British Parliament during 1982, has not been noted in the past as a supporter of the Falkland Islands in their struggle to avoid annexation by Argentina. It was something of a surprise therefore to read an article by him in The Times of January 26 entitled Argentina’s hypocrites is steeped in blood.

• Monday, January 28th 2013 - 19:00 UTC

  “Fortress Falklands” Spanish version of G. Bound latest book launched in Uruguay

  

  “Fortress Falklands, life under siege in Britain’s last outpost”, Graham Bound’s newest book on the subject of the Falkland Islands has been published in Spanish in Uruguay, allowing Argentines to, “learn a thing or two that might surprise them,” Graham told Penguin News this week.

• Monday, January 28th 2013 - 16:57 UTC

  Falklands’ Battle century commemoration includes an invitation to the German Navy

  

  A committee has been formed to organize the commemoration of the Battles of Coronel and the Falklands in 1914, two decisive events of the First World War which although occurred in the Southern hemisphere had a full impact in the European conflict.Last week some twenty people met in the Parish Hall of the Falkalnds' capital, Stanley to address the issue under the chairmanship of Phyl Rendell.

• Monday, January 28th 2013 - 05:50 UTC

  Santiago Declaration with no explicit reference to the Falklands’ dispute

  

  The final document of the EU/CELAC summit in Chile which gathered representatives from 61 countries made a strong commitment to promote trade and investment between the two blocks as well as combat protectionism, but there was no explicit mention to the Falklands’ dispute with Argentina.

• Monday, January 28th 2013 - 04:22 UTC

  US Republican congressman visits the Falklands starting Monday

  

  United States Republican Congressman Thomas Petri will visit the Falkland Islands from Monday 28 January 28 to February 2 accompanied by a group of congressional staff members.

• Friday, January 25th 2013 - 15:24 UTC

  Falklands to host Commonwealth lawmakers’ conference: ‘self determination and devolution’ in agenda

  

  The Falkland Islands will be hosting the 43rd British Islands and Mediterranean Region (BIMR) Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) from the 11th to 15th February 2013. This is the second time BIMR holds its annual conference in the Falklands, last time was in February 2004.

• Friday, January 25th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

  Falklands make £8m transfer to “Oil Development Reserve”, future sovereign wealth fund

  

  The government of the Falkland Islands has made a transfer of over 8 million pounds (£ 8.274 million) to the new Oil Development Reserve, a first step towards a ‘Sovereign Wealth Fund’ based on the Norwegian model it was explained at this week’s meeting of the Standing Finance Committee.

• Thursday, January 24th 2013 - 20:02 UTC

  Argentine Defence minister ‘ashamed’ of the Santisima Trinidad sinking in port

  

  Argentine Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli said that the sinking of the destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad could have been a planned sabotage attack, but also confessed that when President Cristina Fernandez asks him why the ship sank his face drops with embarrassment.