Falkland Islands

• Monday, December 26th 2011 - 11:19 UTC

  China and Argentina ratify crossed support for Taiwan and Falklands’ claims

  

  China ratified support for Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands. The message was delivered last week by Chinese President Hu Jintao's special envoy Jiang Shusheng and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and is part of the reciprocal policy in support of Taiwan as a province of China.

• Monday, December 26th 2011 - 11:18 UTC

  The Guardian: “Britain is asleep over Argentina and the Falklands”

  

  In a piece published last week in London daily The Guardian, and referred to the recent Mercosur support for Argentina in the Falkland Islands dispute, Richard Gott argues that a new scenario has emerged with South America growing in strength, increasingly united and no longer looking to Europe for support and advice which means a different framework for the Falkland Islands s sovereignty dispute.

• Saturday, December 24th 2011 - 03:47 UTC

  Merry Christmas from MercoPress

  

  MercoPress wishes a happy holiday season to all its readers.

• Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 21:25 UTC

  Falklands’ flagged vessels conflict: Almagro and Hague agree they remain in disagreement

  

  Uruguayan Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro spoke Friday on the phone with Foreign secretary William Hague for the first time since the Falklands/Malvinas’ flagged vessels controversy, but both sides apparently could only agree that the situation remains stalled according to brief statements

• Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 19:24 UTC

  Falklands’ visit of the Barque Europa evokes the days of sail

  

  The recent visit of the tall-ship Europa to Stanley harbour and its current cruise around South Georgia brings back memories of a by-gone era, the days of sail and tall ships, exploration and the Cape Horn trade-routes.

• Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 18:27 UTC

  Barring Falklands’ flagged vessels in “more symbolic than anything else”, says Uruguay port authority

  

  Mercosur latest decision to bar all Falkland Islands flagged vessels from entering its ports is “more symbolic” than anything else because a change of flag is enough, according to Uruguay’s Ports Authority, ANP President Alberto Díaz.

• Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 18:26 UTC

  Two Argentine private charter planes land in the Falklands with 14 passengers

  

  The Falkland Islands weekly Penguin News reports in its last edition that two Argentine aircraft carrying fourteen passengers for a cruise ship docked in Stanley landed last Saturday in the Islands Mount Pleasant Airport.

• Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 14:44 UTC

  Buenos Aires only accepts one outcome of talks: “turning Falklands into an Argentine colony”

  

  Following the article published in “The Independent” dated 22nd December 2011, entitled “Time to talk about the Falklands”, the people of the Falkland Islands would like to make the following response.

• Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 14:42 UTC

  Shout it loud enough and even the good guys believe it

  

  By John Fowler for Penguin News, Stanley, Falkland Islands - My first contact with Latin America came in 1971, when my wife and I spent four days in Montevideo while waiting for a ship to carry us to the Falkland Islands. We received such amazing hospitality and kindness from the Uruguayans we met then, that this small, but perfectly-formed country has had a place in my heart ever since.

• Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 05:32 UTC

  The Independent: “Time to talk about the Falklands”

  

  In an Opinion piece, “Time to talk about the Falklands”, The Independent suggests the time might have come to defuse the situation in the South Atlantic and take up last year’s offer from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to broker between Britain and Argentina.