Tag: Chagos Islands

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 05:45 UTC

  Malvinas: Argentina invites Chagos group to expose contradictions in UK's decolonization policy

  

  Argentina's Foreign minister Hector Timerman will receive on Tuesday Olivier Bancoult, president of the Chagos Refugees Group, the entity which represents the 'Chagossians' forcibly ousted from their lands by the United Kingdom. The administration of President Cristina Fernandez pretends to expose contradictions in the UK's approach to the Chagos case and the Falklands sovereignty dispute.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 07:12 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Argentina blasts UK’s ‘double standard’ on self determination right

  

  Argentina questioned the UK after its negative vote at the United Nations General Assembly “to place French Polynesia back on the UN list of non autonomous territories that should be decolonised” Additionally Argentina renewed its claim over the Falkland Islands sovereignty and described the UK attitude, ‘colonial hypocrisy’.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 10:59 UTC

  Australia will create world’s largest network of marine reserves

  

  Australia says it will create the world's largest network of marine parks ahead of the Rio+20 summit. The reserves will cover 3.1 million sq km of ocean, including the Coral Sea.