Falkland Islands

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:14 UTC

  The Malvinas/Falklands: diplomacy interrupted

  

  Sending Prince William to the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, gives out a message of intimidation. By Sean Penn

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:03 UTC

  Encouraging start for the Falklands 2012 Ilex season: almost 100 jiggers operating

  

  The Falkland Islands government has issued a high number of licenses for the 2012 Ilex season with almost a hundred jiggers operating which compares positively to previous years, according to the Director of Natural Resources John Barton.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:53 UTC

  Visiting US congressman offers support for Falklands’ self-determination

  

  South American rhetoric on the Falklands should, “be cooled, otherwise mistakes might happen,” US member of the house of Representatives Republican Congressman F. Jim Sensenbrenner told the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly on Thursday.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine claims of Falklands’ ‘militarization’ is ‘unfounded and baseless’

  

  Argentine claims that the UK is ‘militarizing’ the South Atlantic and the Falklands are ‘unfounded’ and ‘baseless’ according to a letter from British ambassador Mark Lyall-Grant addressed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 05:33 UTC

  Spain trusts Gibraltar and Malvinas cases will be addressed at next UN General Assembly

  

  Spain’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo trusts the next UN General Assembly will debate on the Gibraltar and Malvinas Islands conflicts, “and express support for negotiations”.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Argentine group insists with Falklands’ self determination and sharing natural resources

  

  A group of Argentine intellectuals, academics and free-thinkers have criticized President Cristina Fernandez government strategy of confronting the UK on the Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute and called for dialogue that guarantees the self determination of the Falkland Islanders.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2012 - 05:14 UTC

  Mujica says presence of Prince William in Malvinas is not a ‘nice’ gesture

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said that the presence of Prince William, heir to the British Crown, in the Malvinas Islands is a gesture “not at all nice” and called for the dispute with Argentina not to become military because it’s no good for anybody, least for the region.

• Wednesday, February 22nd 2012 - 02:42 UTC

  Falklands’ government oil revenue of 180bn, only the ‘best case’ scenario

  

  The Falkland Islands Director of Minerals Stephen Luxton said that estimates published last week in the UK, of revenue of 180 billion dollars for the Falklands Government from oil production are only a “best case” scenario since in spite of great potential, the only true test is the drill bit.

• Wednesday, February 22nd 2012 - 01:20 UTC

  Argentina’s Malvinas policy leads no where; China and Taiwan, an inspiring example

  

  Argentina has fallen prisoner of two conflicting positions on the Malvinas Islands issue which lead no where in the objective of claiming sovereignty over the South Atlantic Islands, says Carlos Perez Llana a former Argentine ambassador in Paris and political science and diplomacy professor.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 22:41 UTC

  Timerman Falklands ‘militarization claim’ with little echo at UN admits Argentine press

  

  The Argentine minister Hector Timerman presentation before the United Nations claiming the “militarization of the South Atlantic” from the Falklands by the UK does not seem to be having the expected echo according to press reports from Buenos Aires, based on correspondents’ contributions from New York.