Tag: Boris Johnson

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Johnson disappointed Falklands issue was brought up by Fernandez, but described the meeting as frank and friendly

  

  Boris Johnson has admitted he was “disappointed” that Argentine president Alberto Fernandez used the G7 summit bilateral meeting to bring up the issue of the Falklands/Malvinas dispute.

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• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Boris Johnson and Putin clash over “toxic masculinity” and Falklands' war

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have started the military offensive in Ukraine if he was a woman, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said during the G 7 leaders summit in Germany.

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• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 19:35 UTC

  Johnson tells Fernández Falklanders and Ukrainians entitled to self determination

  

  President Alberto Fernández Monday told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that more Britons were living in Argentina than in the Falkland Islands, but that did not change an iota the Conservative's leader stance that there was nothing to talk about in that regard because Falkland Islanders, like all people, have a right to self-determination, according to his post-meeting comments to the press quoted by Clarín.

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• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:57 UTC

  Falklands in agenda of Fernandez bilateral meeting with Johnson at G7

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez confirmed that this Monday afternoon, at the G7 summit in Munich he will be holding a fifteen minutes bilateral talk with UK prime minister Boris Johnson in which he plans to bring up the issue of the Falkland Islands.

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• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Uruguay Congress Falklands declaration expected first week of July; differences on the term 'usurpation'

  

  The Uruguayan parliament is expected to make a legislative declaration relative to the Falkland Islands conflict and the 40th anniversary of the war during the first week of July. The initiative was presented by the opposition catch-all coalition (Broad Front) in April, but the final decision has been delayed since the senior member of the ruling coalition which supports president Luis Lacalle Pou, does not agree with the wording.

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• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Why Commonwealth summit in Rwanda won't be the re-launch some were expecting

  

  Leaders of some 54 countries – from Africa, Europe, Asia, and Southern America – have converged on Kigali, Rwanda, until 25 June for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Philip Murphy, a professor of Commonwealth history (School of Advanced Study) examines the expectations and limitations of the Kigali conference.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  “People everywhere have a right to decide their own future,” PM Johnson at Falklands' Liberation ceremony

  

  At a ceremony Tuesday morning held at Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum, British prime minister Boris Johnson praised the daring bravery of Veterans, recalling that on the very day, exactly forty years ago, British soldiers entered Stanley and liberated the Falkland Islands from foreign occupation. And since Liberation, the Falkland Islands have lived and thrived in peace and freedom looking into the future.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  With a 'quieter' Westminster, Johnson admits he might visit the Falklands

  

  Prime minister Boris Johnson said that “now things are a bit quieter in Westminster”, he might be able to visit the Falkland Islands, pointing out he was probably the only person at the Speaker's House ceremony who has never visited the Islands.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2022 - 07:49 UTC

  Boris Johnson problems are not over, and there is a list of hopefuls

  

  The Prime Minister's victory in Monday's confidence vote does not mean the end of Boris Johnson's problems. Tory MPs voted by 211 to 148 in support of the PM, but the scale of the revolt against his leadership leaves him wounded.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 23:30 UTC

  PM Johnson wins vote of confidence but shadowy future still ahead

  

  Britain's Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a vote of confidence Monday by 211 to 148 but faces a new political scenario after a rebellion from within Tory ranks comparable in size to the one suffered by Theresa May.