Falkland Islands

• Thursday, May 31st 2001 - 21:00 UTC

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• Thursday, May 31st 2001 - 21:00 UTC

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• Wednesday, May 30th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

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• Wednesday, May 30th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Book Prize for Former Falklands Veterinary Surgeon

  The former Falklands Government senior veterinary surgeon, Andrew Coe, has been awarded a United Kingdom writing prize for his book entitled Falkland Adventure.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine architects advance War Memorial in Falklands.

  Plans to erect a permanent Memorial in the Falkland Islands to Argentines who died in the 1982 War has taken another step forward with the arrival in the Islands of two Argentine architects and their ?minder' from Buenos Aires. However Falklands Councillors have warned the Argentines that there will be no ?short-cut' to obtaining approval for the Memorial at Darwin, some 60 miles from the capital Port Stanley, where 244 Argentines, victims of the 10 weeks War, are buried.

• Monday, May 28th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

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• Monday, May 28th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Special Committee on Decolonization Seminar.

  The Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, also known as the Special Committee of 24 on decolonization, has a Caribbean regional seminar to review the political, economic and social conditions in the small island Non-Self-Governing Territories in Havana, Cuba, from 23 to 25 May.

• Saturday, May 26th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Financial Secretary announces a “Balanced Budget”.

  The Falklands Financial Secretary Derek Howatt was able to announce to the Legislature on Friday afternoon that despite earlier fears of a deficit, he was after-all able to announce a ?balanced budget' for the financial year 2001/02.

• Friday, May 25th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

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• Friday, May 25th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Councillors ask for “more continuity” in the British Foreign Office.

  A British Foreign Office spokesman in the Falkland Islands has responded to recent criticism by several elected Councillors with respect to ?a lack of continuity in the Overseas Territories Department' of the Foreign Office.