Falkland Islands

• Sunday, June 22nd 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Rammell: “no sovereignty negotiations”

  “We're committed to the Falkland Islands self determination and we're not going to negotiate sovereignty, unless the Islanders wish us to”, remarked Foreign Office Parliamentary Under Secretary for Latin America, Caribbean and Overseas Territories Bill Rammell to the Spanish newspaper El País.

• Friday, June 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines: Affordable port upgrade can be reality say experts; Bank news:SCB tighten up; Sukey's MBE; Teenagers 'bag the peaks' in memory of 1982 fallen.

• Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries Hot News.

  Headlines:
  Mar del Plata benefits from lack of squid in the south; Japan and Peru at odds over squid licences; Galician jiggers set eyes on Greenland; Chile and China discuss high seas fishing.

• Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Is. Government makes donation to Oxfam.

  Falkland Islands Government (FIG) donates £1,000 to Oxfam GB in support of the charity's work in Iraq, continuing its pledge to help relieve human suffering and crisis situations around the world.

• Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  UK dismisses sovereignty discussions.

  The United Kingdom dismissed any attempt by the new Argentine government to reopen sovereignty discussions over the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  La Nación praises Argentine-British relations.

  Buenos Aires daily La Nación praised in its Wednesday main editorial the Falklands speech of Foreign Affairs Secretary Rafael Bielsa last Monday before the United Nations Decolonization Committee and simultaneously highlighted the traditional friendship of Argentina with Britain.

• Tuesday, June 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  C24 requests resumption of Falklands' negotiations

  The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization meeting in New York Monday June 16 regretted that, in spite of the widespread international support for a negotiation between the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom that includes all aspects on the future of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), the implementation of the General Assembly resolutions on that question has not yet started.

• Tuesday, June 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  A South Atlantic orchestra?

  The idea of a joint orchestra of British, Argentine and Falklanders musicians as a contribution to finding a solution to the sovereignty claim dispute over the Falklands was proposed by Argentine-Israeli director Daniel Barenboim.

• Monday, June 16th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  Toothfish operators fight illegal fishing; Twelve years cod ban in North Sea proposed; Eight months red tide ban continues in Santa Cruz; EU restrictions threaten krill meal; Good shrimp season forecasted in Patagonia;

• Monday, June 16th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Councillors Summers and Birmingham speeches before C24.

  This Monday elected Falkland Islands Councillors Mike Summers and John Birmingham addressed the United Nations annual meeting of the Decolonization Committee, also known as C 24.