Politics

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez calls for an end to colonialism and blast UN Security Council

  

  In a strong speech claiming sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas issue addressing the UN Decolonization Committee, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez called on the UK “to leave this history of colonialism behind and start building a new history based on dialogue” but at the same time blasted the recent announcement of a referendum in the Islands do decide on their political status.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 06:17 UTC

  Colombia passes law that could pave the way for peace talks with guerrillas

  

  Colombia's Congress on Thursday passed a law that could pave the way for peace talks with Marxist oriented guerrillas, raising hopes for an end to the war, but drawing criticism from human rights groups that say the law is too lenient toward rebel leaders.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 03:18 UTC

  Summers invites Argentina to sit down and enter into a dialogue with the people of the Falklands

  

  In his speech to the UN Decolonization Committee MLA Mike Summers recalled that Article 1 of the UN Charter sets out the importance of respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of all peoples, which Argentina ignores and the Commission, which tries to be neutral, does not express this in its resolutions.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 02:55 UTC

  Do human beings not have human rights if they reside on a piece of land that Argentina wants?

  

  The first petitioner for the Falkland Islands MLA Roger Edwards before the UN Decolonization Committee said that Argentina claims to fight against colonialism yet wishes to annex the Islands and “subject our people to alien subjugation and domination”, which is the very definition of colonialism.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 01:36 UTC

  British Prime Minister boost for the Falkland Islands

  

  On the thirtieth anniversary of its liberation from Argentine occupation (June 14), the Falkland Islands was given its biggest boost by any British Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 23:35 UTC

  Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falklands, an Islander’s perspective

  

  As the Falkland Islands commemorates the 30th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands, a seventh generation Islander explains the significance of Liberation Day to the people of the Falklands.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 23:28 UTC

  Lula da Silva hospitalized; cancels activities requiring “extensive use of his voice”

  

  Brazilian former president Lula da Silva was hospitalized Wednesday night for a check up and to remove a catheter at Sao Paulo’s state of the art Sirio-Libanes Hospital, reported medical sources.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 23:08 UTC

  Merkel warns “Germany’s strength is not infinite” and there are “no miracle solutions”

  

  Chancellor Angela Merkel rebuffed pressure for Germany, Europe's most powerful economy, to underwrite debt or guarantee bank deposits in the euro zone.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 19:06 UTC

  Falklands’ conflict “very much alive in the collective memory”

  

  UK Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne has spoken of his admiration for the Falkland Islands people on the thirtieth anniversary of the conclusion of the Falklands conflict.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 18:59 UTC

  Cameron reaffirms support for Falkland Islanders, ‘in the past and so in the future’

  

  “Our resolve to support the Falkland Islanders has not wavered in the last thirty years and it will not in the years ahead”, said British Prime Minister David Cameron in an brief official statement on the 30th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands, 14 June.