Falkland Islands

• Monday, June 16th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Bielsa: seduction means seriousness and predictability.

  Reclaiming full sovereignty over the Malvinas/Falklands “is a non waivable objective of the Argentine people and a continuous State policy for the new government”, emphasized Argentine Foreign Affairs Secretary Rafael Bielsa before the United Nations Decolonization Committee unveiling President Nestor Kirchner policy regarding the South Atlantic dispute with the United Kingdom.

• Sunday, June 15th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina and Falklands before C24.

  Argentina will reiterate this Monday before the United Nations its request for discussions with the United Kingdom leading to a peaceful and negotiated solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, June 14th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Actualización Penguin News

  Titulares: Falklands desea éxito a Argentina con su economía; Sin cambios en conexión vital; Herido rescatado; Claudette condecorada con MBE por la Reina; GF vs FIG.

• Saturday, June 14th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Royal Honour for FIGO Head Sukey Cameron.

  The work of the Falklands Government Representative in London, Sukey Cameron, has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours. She has been awarded an MBE - a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for, as the citation says, “public service to the Falkland Islands”.

• Friday, June 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines: Falklands wishes Argentina well in restoring economy; Vital link continues; Injured man rescued; GF v FIG; Claudette receives MBE from the Queen.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Antartic search for Shackleton's ship

  Two rival expeditions are planning to launch a search for the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, which was trapped by the ice and sank somewhere in the Weddell Sea during the explorer's abortive 1914 attempt to be the first to cross Antarctica.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Blair Iraq Inquiry unlike Falkland's example

  The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has come in for criticism for failing to follow Margaret Thatcher's example after the Falklands War agree by his refusal to set up an independent committee to inquire into his government's conduct of the war against Iraq.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS supports Argentina's Falklands claim.

  The Organization of American States, OAS, 33rd. General Assembly meeting in Santiago de Chile approved by acclamation the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and United Kingdom in order to find as soon as possible a solution to the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  “Let us live as neighbours” plea to Argentina.

  The Falkland Islands Government have wished well to Argentina's new President, Mr Nestor Kirchner, in restoring his country's economy and expressed the hope there can be a new era of co-operation based on the Falkland Islanders' fundamental right to self-determination, their wish to remain British, and dropping of Argentina's sovereignty claim.

• Tuesday, June 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  MV Tamar says goodbye to Punta Arenas.

  MV Tamar concluded this week an uninterrupted cycle of ten years of regular trips between Punta Arenas and the Falkland Islands.