Falkland Islands

• Monday, July 9th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands navy veteran tests prototype Harrier replacement.

  A veteran Royal Navy pilot of the Falklands conflict has made the first hovering test flight in a United States prototype of an advanced strike aircraft being developed to replace the Harrier jump jet aircraft which played a vital role in the recapture of the Islands in 1982

• Monday, July 9th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands “cover-up” denied.TV focus on HMS Sheffield exocet attack.

  Hints that there has been an official cover-up over failure of the frigate HMS Sheffield to take action against incoming Argentine exocet missiles in the 1982 Falklands Conflict have been denied by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in London.
  An MOD statement declared: “There has been no tampering with evidence and no cover-up. We regard this matter as closed”..

• Friday, July 6th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  A Falklands Royal visit possible in 2002 ? 20th anniversary of war.

  It is not an impossibility that Queen Elizabeth 2nd could visit the Falklands next year to participate in celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the Liberation of the Islands, by British Forces, from Argentine occupation.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Islanders Verdict on Argentine Foreign Minister after meeting at UN.

  Returning from the annual United Nations Decolonisation Committee debate about the Falklands dispute, two Falkland councillors told the BBC World Service's Calling the Falklands that they had a surprisingly cordial and helpful conversation with the Argentine Foreign Minister, Rodriguez Giavarini.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Foreign Secretary to meet Argentine Foreign Minister.

• Tuesday, July 3rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  South America News.

• Tuesday, July 3rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Interest Dominates Run-up to Island Games. Sovereignty Issue highlighted at sporting event

  With more than one hundred representatives and supporters attending the Island Games in the Isle of Man (from July 7 to 14th), the Falkland Islands was already dominating the headlines before they began.

• Tuesday, July 3rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  South Atlantic Fisheries Committee holds 19th meeting.

  British and Argentine government representatives held the 19th South Atlantic Fisheries Committee meeting in London from 14-15 June. Mr Alan Huckle, Head of the Overseas Territories Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office led the British delegation and Ambassador Santos Goñi, Head of the Foreign Ministry's Malvinas and South Atlantic Department, led the Argentine delegation.

• Monday, July 2nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  No blue and white “Virgin of Lujan” on Argentine Monument.

  Criticisms of the proposed permanent Argentine Monument at Darwin were voiced at a public meeting in Port Stanley, so indicating that the granting of a planning licence will be far from a formality, as first thought.