Politics

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 21:14 UTC

  Suspending Lan flight can only be seen as an “economic blockade” against the people of the Falklands

  

  British ambassador in Chile Jon Benjamin said that if Lan flights to the Falkland Islands from Chile are suspended this can only be interpreted as an “economic blockade” of the Islands and strongly suggested that the administration of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is trumpeting the Malvinas card pushed by “domestic interests”.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 21:07 UTC

  Argentina/UK 2011 bilateral trade totalled 1.4bn dollars; could suffer ‘Malvinas’ dispute impact

  

  A private Argentine report warns that the current diplomatic dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas could have an impact on bilateral trade with the UK which last year totalled over 1.4 billion dollars with a 150 million surplus for Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 20:56 UTC

  UK celebrates Captain Scott’s Antarctic achievements and legacy to peace and science

  

  Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham celebrated the Captain Scott expedition's achievements and legacy of peace and science at the Foreign Office on 20 February.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 20:34 UTC

  Argentine personalities openly support Falklands’ right to self-determination

  

  A group of Argentine writers, historians, constitutional law experts, politicians and journalists will be making a formal presentation in support of the Falkland Islanders right to self-determination. They have also criticized the constant harassment to which Islanders are exposed from the administration of President Cristina Fernandez.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 05:03 UTC

  One of Argentina’s wealthiest women dedicated to philanthropy and art buried in Buenos Aires

  

  The remains of Argentina’s wealthiest woman, María Amalia Sara Lacroze Reyes Oribe de Fortabat Pourtale was buried Sunday at the Recoleta Cemetery, where an official service was held after family and friends attended a private funeral ceremony.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 04:59 UTC

  Island named after last solider killed in the Falklands’ conflict

  

  On a June morning 30 years ago, Pte Craig Jones was killed by a shell as British troops made their final push in the Falklands War. He was the last soldier to die in the conflict as a ceasefire was declared the following day.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 04:28 UTC

  UK Secretary discusses Falklands’ defence in Parliament

  

  UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday that the British military presence in the Falklands has not increased recently since there was no recorded change to Argentine force levels, and there was no “current or credible” threat.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 04:14 UTC

  Protestant parson and human rights activist next German president

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel bowed to pressure on Sunday and agreed to back popular opposition candidate Joachim Gauck to become president, averting a political fight that might have distracted her government from solving the euro zone crisis.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 04:03 UTC

  Argentine opposition demand open debate on Malvinas, not the “official speech”

  

  Argentine members of the opposition have warned that they will not attend a Friday special session of the Senate and Lower House Foreign Affairs committees to be held in Tierra del Fuego and dedicated to the Malvinas issue unless the overall position of the diplomatic conflict is openly debated.

• Saturday, February 18th 2012 - 01:52 UTC

  “Argentina is not a country you’d want to be associated with”, says Falklands’ MLA

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker Mike Summers accused Argentina of acting as a “schoolyard bully” trying to take sweets from others and described as intolerable that a country of that size should be trying to bully a country of 3.000 people into submission. “It’s a country you’d not want to be associated with”.