Tag: Falkland Islands

• Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 08:01 UTC

  The Falklands/Malvinas: Brazil’s next regional headache?

  

  By Oliver Stuenkel (*) - Brazil, foreign policy observers often point out, is blessed. Contrary to many other emerging powers such as China or India, it is located in a region that rarely experiences interstate tension or war. Not only can Brazil live on a relatively small defense budget, while India is the world's largest arms importer. Brazil can also dedicate considerable time and energy towards extending its global diplomatic reach without constantly being forced to deal with trouble in its neighborhood.

• Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:50 UTC

  Malvinas Families wish to have a chapel at Darwin cemetery and requested the “Pope's mediation”

  

  The Malvinas war next of kin are trying to have a chapel or a sanctuary built at the Darwin cemetery, in the Falkland Islands where the remains of 237 Argentine combatants are buried. The idea is to convert “this space in dispute in a peregrination place”, according to a report from the Argentine official news agency Telam.

• Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  Falklands' prosperity and economic boom surprises visiting Brazilian delegation

  

  Visiting Brazilian political advisor and environmentalist Eduardo Viola emphatically expressed support for the Falkland Islands’ right of self-determination during a press conference in Stanley with other visiting Brazilian colleagues, reports this week's edition of Penguin News.

• Friday, March 21st 2014 - 09:35 UTC

  Falklands' veteran Simon Weston featured at the National Portrait Gallery

  

  The National Portrait Gallery in London and the BBC unveiled their first joint painted portrait commission – of Falklands War veteran Simon Weston by artist Nicky Philipps. Weston was voted last September by viewers of BBC One’s The One Show as the public figure who most deserved to have his picture displayed at the National Portrait Gallery.

• Thursday, March 20th 2014 - 03:28 UTC

  Malvinas: Argentina understands UK's insistence on tripartite talks, “but UN resolutions prevent it”

  

  The Telegraph published a long interview with Daniel Filmus recently appointed to head the Argentine government newly created Malvinas Islands Related Issues Secretariat in which he repeats many of the arguments of the Cristina Fernandez administration campaign referred to the Falklands sovereignty claim, using such words as 'colonialism' and 'militarization', and attacking UK's refusal to sit and dialogue as indicated by UN resolutions.

• Wednesday, March 19th 2014 - 07:21 UTC

  With Malvinas in mind, Argentine diplomat calls for recreating links with UK

  

  The recent visit to Chile and particularly Uruguay of Foreign Office minister for Latin-American Hugo Swire has triggered a barrage of comments and debate in Argentina about the Falklands/Malvinas, particularly aggressive towards the FCO official, but not surprising.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:58 UTC

  Argentine government picks on Swire interview to attack opposition leaders

  

  Argentine cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich claimed that UK's preference to talk about the Falklands/Malvinas dispute with opposition presidential hopefuls, clearly means that “these leaders are willing to a greater flexibility regarding foreign interests in the dispute”.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:12 UTC

  “Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands to Britain”

  

  Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands mean to Britain, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after holding last-ditch talks on the region with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry.

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 09:18 UTC

  Falkland Islanders right to self determination reaffirmed by Minister Swire

  

  Foreign Office minister for Latin America Hugo Swire MP, who recently visited the Falklands, sent a letter to Falkland Islanders thanking the warm reception and congratulating them on their strong sense of identity and community. The letter was published in this Friday's edition of the Penguin News.

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 09:08 UTC

  Falklands focused on a multi-year plan of mine clearance

  

  Demining work did not take place this summer in the Falkland Islands, “because efforts were focused on agreeing a multi-year plan for the next round of mine clearance operations,” Member of Legislative Assembly Mike Summers stated this week.