Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, June 30th 2015 - 05:16 UTC

  Argentina's threat against Falklands' oil companies with no impact on markets

  

  The Argentine court order that assets of several international oil companies drilling for oil in the Falkland Islands be seized has caused mild turbulence in their share prices. Tierra del Fuego judge Lilian Herraez ordered the authorities to seize bank accounts, boats and other assets worth an estimated US$156mln.

• Monday, June 29th 2015 - 20:25 UTC

  Strangling Falklands' hydrocarbons industry is 'unacceptable' with dangerous implications for global business

  

  The government of Argentina's campaign to strangle the Falkland Islands hydrocarbons industry is 'unacceptable' and taking action against British and international oil and gas companies has dangerous implications for global business, warned Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire on Monday reacting to an Argentine federal court ordering the seizure of UK and US assets involved in Falklands' operations.

• Monday, June 29th 2015 - 19:45 UTC

  Falklands elected government: “Argentina courts have no jurisdiction in the Falklands”

  

  “Argentine courts have no jurisdiction in the Falkland Islands”, said Falklands' lawmaker Mike Summers early Monday in response to the latest Argentine attempt into bullying the Islands and derailing its economy.

• Monday, June 29th 2015 - 05:38 UTC

  Argentine judge orders seizure of Falklands' oil companies assets

  

  Argentina will pursue in Britain and the United States a local judge's order to seize assets of oil drillers operating in the disputed Falklands Islands, the Argentine foreign minister Hector Timerman said in an interview published in a government financed newspaper on Sunday.

• Saturday, June 27th 2015 - 07:08 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas, a territorial integrity issue; a C24 visiting mission would have to be to Buenos Aires and London

  

  The president of the UN Decolonization Special Committee (C24), Xavier Lasso Mendoza argued that the Falklands/Malvinas issue is a territorial integrity and sovereignty dispute between two countries, and since there is no subjugated people in the Islands, if a visiting mission is to be sent, it would have to be to Buenos Aires and London, with the simple message, ”when are you going to sit and begin negotiations?

• Saturday, June 27th 2015 - 06:46 UTC

  Falklands' 'fk' domain battle at the ICANN Buenos Aires conference

  

  The British government has stood up to Argentina in a battle over the Falkland Islands' right to exist in cyberspace at the ICANN conference in Buenos Aires. Argentina is furious that the disputed territory is allowed to give websites a “.fk” address - identifying them as hailing from the disputed territory and brought up the issue during the current conference.

• Saturday, June 27th 2015 - 04:54 UTC

  Timerman: UK attempts to convince Malvinas population that it could have a right to self-determination that does not exist

  

  Statement by Argentine Foreign Affairs and Worship before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, 25 June 2015.

• Friday, June 26th 2015 - 06:02 UTC

  UN Decolonization Committee supports Argentina's Falklands/Malvinas claims

  

  The United Nations Decolonization Committee approved on Thursday a new resolution urging the United Kingdom to discuss the Falklands/Malvinas dispute with Argentina, in order to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. The decision came as no surprise since it has become an annual event despite Falklands' representatives demand for C24 to act in support of Non Self Governing Territories.

• Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 14:37 UTC

  ”Argentina seeks to colonize the Falklands against the wishes of its people”

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker Mike Summers called on the UN Special Decolonisation Committee to uphold the basic human rights of the people of the Non Self-Governing Territories, particularly self determination, argued that C24 has no mandate to discuss competing claims over NSGTs and cautioned that in supporting Argentine colonial aspirations in the Falkland Islands, “you are complicit in supporting Argentina’s bullying and harassment”.

• Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 14:31 UTC

  “It is the duty of C24 to acknowledge the rights of the Falkland Islands and not support those who covet our territory”

  

  The Falkland Islands' long journey from a colony to a self governing, financially autonomous territory, was underlined on Thursday, by lawmaker Phyl Rendell in her presentation to the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee. But so was the fact that advancing development, and relations with the continent are always under threat from Argentina, “who makes no secret of wanting to control our territory against our wishes”.