Falkland Islands

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 04:11 UTC

  Falkland Islands competitors skip ash cloud and are en route to Island Games

  

  Falkland Islands competitors and delegates, with patience and persistence, finally managed to skip the volcanic ash cloud and are on their way to the Isle of Wight for the NatWest Island Games which open next Saturday.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 19:27 UTC

  Falklands publicly invites Decolonization Committee president to visit the Islands

  

  Falklands’ representative publicly invited the president of the UN Decolonization Committee to see for himself the reality of the self-sufficient and self-governing Islands, and called on C24 to recognize “the primacy of our right to self determination above anything and everything else”.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 17:44 UTC

  Argentina reaffirms Malvinas sovereignty rights; invites UK to “good faith” negotiations

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman addressing the United Nations Decolonisation Committee reiterated Argentina’s “unrenounceable and imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas Islands and extended a “formal invitation” to the British government “to sit to a table and resume, in good faith, negotiations” to solve the long standing dispute.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 15:37 UTC

  Falklands calls on C24 “to open its mind” and support Islanders desire to determine their future

  

  The Falkland Islands called on the UN Decolonization Committee to open its mind to both sides of the sovereignty dispute with Argentina, underlining “legitimate sovereignty is a self-determined desire to live under a government of one’s own choice”.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 05:08 UTC

  Falklands born James Peck has no plans to give up his British passport

  

  The Falkland Islands born artist James Peck who last week was handed personally by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Argentine citizenship papers in a much publicized event, revealed in an interview with The Times that he had been threatened.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 03:57 UTC

  Struggling to preserve Falklands’ self-determination in the South Atlantic

  

  (*) By Roger Edwards and Dick Sawle
  Visiting the United States, with its bustling streets in Washington and Manhattan, is always a bit of a culture shock for a Falkland Islander. While we have much in common – a shared ancestry and language, and the democratic values that underpin our societies – we have a few differences too.

• Monday, June 20th 2011 - 06:26 UTC

  Argentina and Falkland Islands meet Tuesday at the decolonization committee

  

  Argentina on Tuesday is scheduled to make its annual presentation before the United Nations Decolonisation Committee on the Malvinas Islands question, as it has been doing since 1989.

• Saturday, June 18th 2011 - 08:09 UTC

  Falklands’ “is not negotiable”; UK calls for talks with Argentina on other issues

  

  Britain again categorically rejected any Falkland Islands sovereignty negotiations with Argentina and reiterated that London’s position on the issue “has not changed at all”. However “as has been standing policy”, the UK is always ready to discuss issues of common interest in the South Atlantic.

• Saturday, June 18th 2011 - 01:36 UTC

  Falklands’ fish, “a highly branded commodity” in Europe

  

  Falklands’ fish is a “highly traded commodity” and customers are excited about secure and direct access to it, stated Director Fortuna Fishing Company Ltd Stuart Wallace this week.

• Friday, June 17th 2011 - 06:37 UTC

  CFK describes PM Cameron’s Falklands’ statement as “mediocre and almost stupid”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, described UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s emphatic refusal to discuss Falklands/Malvinas Islands’ sovereignty as “mediocre and almost stupid” and promised to continue indefatigably with the claim in all world forums.