Falkland Islands

• Saturday, March 31st 2012 - 07:23 UTC

  Argentine group questions ‘ambiguity’ of Malvinas April 2 commemoration

  

  The same group of Argentine intellectuals and free thinkers that last February presented the document “Malvinas, an alternative view” in which among other things they recognize Falkland Islanders right to self determination, released a second text in which they strongly question having chosen April 2 to commemorate the Day of the veterans and the fallen in the Malvinas war.

• Saturday, March 31st 2012 - 06:43 UTC

  “Falklands have a right to self determination and to be British”, no blockade is going to change that

  

  Argentina’s ever more aggressive rhetoric challenging the Falkland Islands sovereignty underlines the significance of the right to self determination, said Sukey Cameron the Falklands’ elected government representative in London.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 22:54 UTC

  Argentina reiterates ‘serious suspicions’ about UK nuclear weapons in Falklands’ region

  

  Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli reiterated Argentina’s “militarization” claims in the Falkland Islands and highlighted “serious suspicions” that Britain is using nuclear weapons in the South Atlantic region.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 07:54 UTC

  For Uruguay “there is not blockade of Malvinas by any country of the continent”

  

  Uruguay reiterated its full and traditional support for Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, but at the same time underlined that “there is no blockade to the inhabitants of the Malvinas Islands by any country of the continent”, and clearly differentiated the Cuban and Malvinas blockades.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 06:47 UTC

  Uruguay against any Falklands’ blockade; supports trade with the Islands

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro said that the Uruguayan government does not oppose trade with the Falkland Islands and any undertaking to that effect by the private sector is welcome since “Uruguay does not agree with any commercial or economic blockade of the Islands”.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 06:31 UTC

  UK says there is no evidence at all, Argentina has the capacity/strength to invade the Falklands

  

  On the verge of the South Atlantic conflict 30th anniversary, the UK’s Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said that the Falkland Islands “do not face a current credible military threat from Argentina”, and brushed aside the rumours published by the British sensationalist media.

• Thursday, March 29th 2012 - 06:52 UTC

  Multiple disciplines exhibit on Argentina’s Malvinas passion opens in Buenos Aires

  

  A multiple discipline exhibition on the Malvinas Islands ahead of the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict will be officially opened Thursday evening in the Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, March 29th 2012 - 06:43 UTC

  Looking back at a war thirty years on.

  

  The University of London’s Institute of Historical Research (IHR) announced that on 19 and 20 May, 2012 it will be holding a two day conference on: The Falklands War: Thirty Years On.

• Thursday, March 29th 2012 - 04:31 UTC

  Falklands open to UN referendum to decide whether Islanders want to remain British

  

  “The Falklands are British, we have all the rights over the Islands plus the Islanders want to be British” said Governor Nigel Haywood who did not discard a UN sponsored referendum so that Islanders can decide on their future.

• Thursday, March 29th 2012 - 04:05 UTC

  First Argentine invasion plan of Falklands in the sixties included shipping all Islanders to Montevideo

  

  Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentine forces which erupted into a full blown conflict with the UK that ended 74 days later with the complete unconditional surrender of the invading forces.