Tag: Fakland Islands

• Wednesday, March 21st 2012 - 21:16 UTC

  Prince William ends routine tour in Falklands and is back in UK with Kate

  

  Britain's Prince William was reunited with his wife on Wednesday after returning home from a tour of duty. The future king arrived at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on the morning after leaving on February 1 for a tour with his Search and Rescue squadron in the Falkland Islands.

• Sunday, February 26th 2012 - 07:45 UTC

  Argentine all-party lawmakers group ratify Malvinas sovereignty claim in Ushuaia

  

  Argentine lawmakers from the entire political arch stamped on Saturday their support to the so called “Ushuaia declaration” claiming sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and calling for dialogue with the UK to overcome the ongoing dispute.

• Saturday, February 25th 2012 - 15:18 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: an open letter to Sean Penn

  

  Dear Sean,
  I am writing in response to your comment in today's Guardian (23 February). We seem to have missed each other when you were recently in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:03 UTC

  Encouraging start for the Falklands 2012 Ilex season: almost 100 jiggers operating

  

  The Falkland Islands government has issued a high number of licenses for the 2012 Ilex season with almost a hundred jiggers operating which compares positively to previous years, according to the Director of Natural Resources John Barton.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 02:51 UTC

  Unasur condemns presence of HMS Montrose in the Falklands

  

  The Unions of South of American Nations, Unasur, rejected British military presence in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and again reiterated their full support for Argentina’s ‘legitimate claims’ in her dispute with the UK over the sovereignty of the South Atlantic islands.

• Friday, September 17th 2010 - 20:43 UTC

  Rockhopper declares Falklands’ oil discovery will be commercially viable

  

  Rockhopper Exploration (RKH.L) said it believed its oil discovery offshore the Falklands Islands will be commercially viable. A test at the Sea Lion 1 well in the North Falkland basin produced sustained rates of over 2,000 barrels of oil per day, in line with its hopes, Rockhopper said in a statement on Friday.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 - 04:36 UTC

  Argentine UN ambassador confident US will eventually play a part in Falklands’ dispute

  

  Argentine ambassador before United Nations Jorge Agüello said it “is only a matter of time” before the country recovers Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty and anticipated that Washington would play a “dialogue-facilitating” role with the UK in the long standing dispute.