Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, June 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands/Argentina: entrenched positions and no realistic change

  

  Relations between the Falkland Islands and Argentina with positions so firmly entrenched, “realistically are not going to change”, but Gibraltar and Northern Ireland show us that very intractable situations can make progress, when there's good will on both sides and willingness to put the sovereignty issue aside.

• Sunday, June 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Cruise industry is flourishing

  

  THE Falklands' flourishing tourism industry continues to grow, particularly in the cruise ship sector.

• Thursday, June 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands proposes Argentina relation based on “tolerance and respect”

  

  Falkland Islands elected Councillor Dr. Richard Davies addressing on Thursday the United Nations Decolonization Committee in New York invited Argentina “to build a better relationship between our countries, based on tolerance and respect, so that the sacrifice of all those who suffered and died in 1982 will not have been in vain”.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  “We want the freedom to develop and govern as we wish”

  

  TWENTY-FIVE years after British troops liberated the Islands Argentina continues to view the Falklands with an acquisitive eye.
  Recent Argentine governments have denied plans for further military action, but they pursue an aggressive diplomatic and public relations campaign to annex the Falkland Islands.
  The Argentines use every opportunity to promote their case. International organizations such as the United Nations and the Organisation of American States (OAS) are lobbied hard. Opportunities such as the Ibero American summit as well as scientific and conservation meetings are shamelessly used. Serious debate on issues like the conservation of fish stocks or wildlife are often hijacked or held up by Argentina's objections and statements about sovereignty.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Norwegian vessel seismic surveying in Falklands and Uruguay

  

  Desire Petroleum PLC (AIM:DES) announced earlier this month that Wavefield InSeis ASA from Norway acquired a majority of the high resolution 2D shallow-seismic data, at a number of potential drilling sites, on its licences in the North Falkland Basin, using the seismic vessel “Bergen Surveyor”.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Episkopi base in Cyprus marked Falklands' anniversary

  The 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands was commemorated in a service at Happy Valley in the Western Sovereign Base Area of Episkopi, Cyprus last Sunday.

• Sunday, June 17th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  London ceremony climaxes Falklands' war commemoration

  

  Dozens of military aircraft flew over Buckingham Palace and thousands of veterans marched down the Mall in London on Sunday to mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina.

• Friday, June 15th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Prince Edward and Ingram pay homage to Argentine dead

  

  Prince Edward, British Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram together with a delegation of officials and war veterans paid homage to Argentine dead at the Falkland Islands cemetery on Friday.

• Thursday, June 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines:
  Liberation celebrations begin; Massive boost for pilgrims; New Argentine at UN; Rodney joins Wool Company; Travel contest at Expo; What's on this week?

• Thursday, June 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Liberation Day celebrated in Stanley

  

  The fourteenth of June each year marks the anniversary of the surrender of the Argentine forces, which occupied the Falkland Islands in 1982 and is celebrated as a national holiday.