Falkland Islands

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 19:53 UTC

  HMS Protector ready for Antarctica; no helicopter on maiden deployment

  

  Icebreaker HMS Protector, formerly MV Polarbjørn, has spent the spring and summer steadily being converted into a hydrographic survey ship to plug the gap left by HMS Endurance which nearly sank during a flooding incident in late 2008.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 19:34 UTC

  HMS Edinburgh in her third Atlantic crossing heads for the Falklands

  

  HMS Edinburgh following a two-week maintenance stop in Cape Town, South Africa, is again crossing the South Atlantic to the Falkland Islands. This is the third crossing since the Type 42 destroyer left the UK.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 15:58 UTC

  UK tells CFK “no Falklands’ sovereignty talks unless and until such time as Islanders so wish”

  

  “There can be no negotiations on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands unless and until such time as the islanders so wish”, reaffirmed the UK delegation in an official statement in reply to remarks from the President of Argentina before the UN General Assembly.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 07:17 UTC

  UK government “regrets Argentina considering withdrawing from yet another agreement”

  

  The UK government regrets that “Argentina is considering withdrawing from yet another agreement with the United Kingdom” said on Thursday a spokesperson for the British embassy in Buenos Aires in reference to Argentina’s statement before the UN to further isolate the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 07:11 UTC

  Argentine threat to air link is “act of desperation” says Faklands’ lawmaker

  

  If Argentina goes through with its threat to suspend the Falklands/ Chile airlink it will be an, “act of desperation,” said Member of Legislative Assembly Jan Cheek quoted by the Friday edition of the Falklands’ Penguin News.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 01:36 UTC

  UN Argentine ambassador ratifies air isolation threat to the Falkland Islands

  

  The Argentine Ambassador before the UN, Jorge Argüello, ratified Thursday morning that if the United Kingdom keeps on refusing to discuss and negotiate Malvinas Islands’ sovereignty, the government will cancel flights to the South Atlantic archipelago.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:39 UTC

  RFA ‘Black Rover’ returns to UK after 18 months support operations in Falklands

  

  Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Black Rover is returning to the UK on Sunday after an 18-month deployment in support of the Royal Navy operations in UK Overseas Territories including the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, St Helena and Tristan Da Cunha.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:21 UTC

  Falklands’ war Wessex helicopter involved in Sir Galahad disaster rescued for new role

  

  A Wessex helicopter which was used to rescue injured servicemen during the Falklands conflict is to have a new role as a cafe at a Shropshire paintball Centre.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 08:11 UTC

  CFK agrees to visit Chile after October 23 presidential election

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was invited to visit Chile during a meeting she held in New York City with her Chilean counterpart Sebastián Piñera on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 22:27 UTC

  UK Deputy PM very much interested in Falklands’ relations with ‘neighbours across the sea’

  

  UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was very much interested in the Falkland Islands situation, oil prospects and relations with “our neighbours across the sea”, said Islands’ lawmaker MLA Roger Edwards present at the Liberal-Democratic party conference this week in Birmingham.