Falkland Islands

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.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 18:33 UTC
Argentine president at UN threatens to suspend Falklands’ air link with Chile

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, threatened to review and suspend the Falklands/Malvinas air link with Chile, covered by the 14 July 1999 agreement, unless the UK abides by UN resolutions and begins talks with Argentina on disputed South Atlantic Islands’ sovereignty.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 01:58 UTC
“The Tigers”: from Buckingham Palace changing the guard to the Falklands

Soldiers from the Portsmouth area have swapped Royal duties for freezing Falkland Islands training reports the Portsmouth media. Up to 120 members of the 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment have travelled the 8,000 miles south from London to the Falkland Islands.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 20:57 UTC
Another Falklands company ‘on schedule’ to drill for oil in the next six months

Falkland Islands exploration company Argos Resources released Monday morning interim results and CEO Ian Thomson told investors that the group is on schedule to be ‘drill ready’ in late 2011/early 2012 to begin off-shore exploration activities in the South Atlantic British Territory.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 20:36 UTC
Foreign Office to meet Rockhopper investors over Falklands oil plans

Britain will meet shareholders from explorer Rockhopper to discuss the Falkland Islands and the location for the company's proposed 2 billion dollars oil project based on recent discovery estimates.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:48 UTC
UK to ensure Overseas Territories’ constitutional arrangements are “effectively working”

As a decade of British Overseas Territories’ constitutional revision is coming to a close the UK policy strategy is to ensure that constitutional arrangements are effectively working to be best interests of OT and the UK, announced Foreign Secretary William Hague this past week before the House of Commons.
Sunday, September 18th 2011 - 12:26 UTC
Falkland Islands: 2016 for oil says Rockhopper but Islanders cautious

Rockhopper Exploration’s announcement this week that they expect to begin pumping oil in 2016, set the international media off on a further round of speculation about future wealth, but Falklands stakeholders and interested parties are taking a more cautious approach.
Saturday, September 17th 2011 - 07:25 UTC
Chilean mayor trip to the ‘Falklands’ causes major uproar in Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego provincial authorities in the extreme south of Argentina confirmed they would not be participating Sunday in Chile’s 201 independence anniversary in protest over statements from a local mayor who referred to the Malvinas Islands as Falkland Islands.
Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 21:57 UTC
Preparations for Falklands’ war victory to be celebrated thirty years on

Plans are being drawn up for celebrations to mark next year's 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, reports Wednesday the Evening Standard. The UK Ministry of Defence, Foreign Office and Falkland Islands government are working on how best to commemorate the 1982 conflict with Argentina.