Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 03:33 UTC

  Americas Summit expected to release support-statement for Argentina’s Falklands claim

  

  Thirty years after the Falklands/Malvinas war, Latin America seems to be closing ranks behind Argentina's sovereignty claim over the disputed islands and reviving a bid for control in the resource-rich South Atlantic.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 00:47 UTC

  Argentine invasion of the Falklands, ‘a profound wrong’ says PM Cameron

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday April 2 called Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands three decades ago a “profound wrong” aimed at depriving the Islanders of their freedom.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Rioters attack UK embassy in Buenos Aires with stones, sticks and gasoline bombs

  

  Argentine radical groups fought several hours with riot police in Buenos Aires protecting the British embassy on the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands/Malvinas war between Argentina and the UK.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 22:20 UTC

  Argentina appeals to Red Cross to help identify remains of soldiers buried in Falklands

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has sent a letter to the Red Cross asking the international organization to intercede before the UK so that the remains of Argentine and British soldiers in the Falkland Islands which are still unknown, 30 years after the beginning of the Malvinas war can be identified.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:52 UTC

  Former RN officer tells how the sinking of the Belgrano was coordinated

  

  On the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict, the member of the Royal Navy who was responsible for coordinating the attack on the Argentina Navy cruiser “General Belgrano” spoke to UK-based newspaper “The News,” in Portsmouth and explained the steps that led up to the attack that caused 323 deaths and why it was justified at the time.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:47 UTC

  UK parliament partisan support for Falklands’ right to self-determination

  

  The UK’s Falkland Islands All-party Parliamentary Group stated on Monday that “no British government will negotiate with Argentina the sovereignty of the South Atlantic archipelago.”

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:40 UTC

  HMS Dauntless leaves Wednesday for routine deployment to the South Atlantic

  

  The Royal Navy announced that Portsmouth-based warship HMS Dauntless sails on Wednesday, April 4, for a six-month routine deployment to the South Atlantic, relieving HMS Montrose that is on her way back home.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:34 UTC

  Falklands’ message from Hague: “we still want to work with Argentina”

  

  In a statement entitled “Why we still want to work with Argentina”, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict, Foreign Secretary William Hague, stressed UK’s eagerness to work with Argentina on several aspects surrounding the Falkland Islands issue.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 15:39 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Reflections on April 2

  

  By John Fowler - Maybe because the days in the Falklands get noticeably shorter from now on and the onset of winter inevitable, April is nobody's favourite month here. To add to the gathering gloom at this time, hardly a year goes by without some journalist – usually Argentinean – ringing the office to ask how we are 'celebrating' the second of April, which marks the anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands in 1982.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 09:50 UTC

  Green light for Uruguayan flight to Falklands; Argentine ambassador says it’s not commercially viable

  

  The Uruguayan government through the Ministry of Defence gave the green light to a local air cargo company, Airclass which requested authorization to make a commercial flight to the Falkland Islands sometime this month.