Falkland Islands

• Friday, March 3rd 2023 - 09:50 UTC

  Cleverly insists: the Falklands are British

  

  British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly wrote on Twitter that the Falkland “islanders have the right to decide their own future: they have chosen to remain an autonomous British Overseas Territory,” and therefore “the Falkland Islands are British.”

• Thursday, March 2nd 2023 - 15:10 UTC

  Argentina withdraws from Foradori-Duncan Treaty

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Thursday told his British colleague James Cleverly that the South American country was pulling out of the Foradori-Duncan agreement signed between both countries in 2016 and which was pivotal to the identification of bodies of soldiers known only to God buried in the Falkland Islands, among other improvements in bilateral ties.

• Monday, February 27th 2023 - 08:47 UTC

  US media: Washington needs to capitalize on Falklands case to restore hemispheric unity

  

  However small, remote, and irrelevant to Washington the South Atlantic might be, it might prove vital if the United States is to rebuild its hemispheric strategy lost as a result of helping the United Kingdom retake the Falklands from Argentine forces back in 1982, according to a Foreign Policy article published Sunday.

• Saturday, February 25th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Falklands / Malvinas War: “Known Soldier” conference touches young students and veterans alike

  

  A conference at London's King College School of Security Studies by 1982 war veterans Julio Aro and Geoffrey Cardozo moved British students who got the opportunity to hear first-hand what an armed conflict meant for those participating in it.

• Friday, February 24th 2023 - 12:13 UTC

  The Falkland Islands continue to support Ukraine

  

  Today, one year ago, Russia made an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. To mark this sad anniversary the Falkland Islands Government and the community continue to express their support for Ukraine in their fight for peace against a hostile nation.

• Friday, February 24th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  HMS Protector calls it a season, heads back north

  

  The Royal Navy's icebreaker HMS Protector has completed her Antarctic scientific mission for the 2023 Antarctic season safeguarding birdlife and laying the groundwork for further research, it was announced.

• Wednesday, February 22nd 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  Falklands War frigate to be turned into a museum

  

  The Royal Navy's HMS Ambuscade is to be preserved as a shipbuilding museum in Glasgow following her decommissioning by the Pakistan Navy, it was announced this week.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2023 - 09:50 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Refurbishing starts on Mount Pleasant runway

  

  A contractor has started working on a £7m project to extend the lifespan of the runway at the Mount Pleasant Complex (MPC) airfield in the Falkland Islands until it can be fully re-laid in the coming years, the British Government reported Monday.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2023 - 09:10 UTC

  Successful Falklands tour for Gibraltar Regiment Band

  

  Ten members of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment Band joined forces with colleagues from the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment Band (PWRR) to deliver musical support on behalf of 3PWRR while their battalion were deployed in the Falklands for Exercise Tiger Island.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2023 - 08:00 UTC

  Former Argentine FM lashes out at Uruguayan President over Falklands trip

  

  Former Argentine Foreign Minister Felipe Solá said Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou's “main objective” was “to show his contempt for Argentina” after a group of lawmakers visited the Falkland Islands together with the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Montevideo Faye O'Connor.