Tag: Falkland Islands

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 08:36 UTC

  Timerman happy with the way he is running Malvinas policy

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said he must be doing the right things regarding the Falklands/Malvinas issue because the Foreign Office prefers to talk to members of the opposition.

• Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 22:51 UTC

  UK prefers to discuss Malvinas with Massa or Macri says Swire, according to Telam

  

  British Minister of State for the Foreign Office Hugo Swire has stated London would rather sit at the negotiating table with Argentine opposition presidential hopefuls Sergio Massa or Mauricio Macri to discuss Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty.

• Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 05:52 UTC

  Falklands, trade, Mercosur/EU, oil and gas, in Swire's agenda in Uruguay

  

  Bilateral trade, Mercosur/EU talks, oil and gas cooperation, and Falkland Islands, plus some audacious comments on the coming World Cup match Uruguay/England, were some of the issues addressed by Foreign Office minister for Latin-American Hugo Swire during his one day visit to Uruguay on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, March 11th 2014 - 06:28 UTC

  Falklands weekly says Argentina's call for dialogue and respect is 'farcical'

  

  The Falkland Islands latest Penguin News editorial picks on the Chagos Islanders controversy surfaced by Ambassador Alicia Castro and laments that Argentina insists that Falkland Islanders 'are a non people entitled to nothing', but on the other hand had it not been “for the Argentine act of aggression that shone a spotlight on our existence as a population, we too might have ended up a people without a place”.

• Monday, March 10th 2014 - 20:50 UTC

  Falkland Islands turns out to receive the Commonwealth Games Queen's baton

  

  The Queen’s Baton promoting the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow later this year received a hearty welcome in the Falkland Islands, as residents grouped on the Stanley public jetty at 6.30pm on Thursday 27 February when it was hurtled to Stanley from HMS Clyde.

• Saturday, March 8th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

  Military personnel in Falkland Islands totals 1.060, says MoD

  

  There are currently 1,060 military personnel stationed in the Falkland Islands, confirmed the Minister of State for the Ministry of Defense Mark Francois on Wednesday, according to a report from the latest edition of the Falklands' Penguin News.

• Friday, March 7th 2014 - 04:48 UTC

  MSC Certification for Falkland Islands Toothfish reflects high management standards

  

  Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification has been granted to the Falklands Islands Toothfish longline fishery, announced on Thursday Consolidated Fisheries Ltd. (CFL). The fishery is the first in the Falkland Islands to be certified and reflects the high standards of fisheries management and environmental measures practised within the Islands on the Patagonian toothfish fishery.

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 21:45 UTC

  Foreign Office minister Swire will visit Uruguay on Wednesday 12 March

  

  Hugo Swire MP, FCO Minister for Latin America, will be visiting Uruguay on Wednesday 12 March where he is scheduled to hold several political and trade meetings. The minister will be returning from Santiago de Chile where he will attend the inauguration ceremony of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet.

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 05:44 UTC

  Malvinas opportunities and links for Uruguay, but mostly unknown to current generations

  

  Lawmaker Jaime Trobo came out strongly is support of close links between the Falkland Islands and Uruguay in a column which he published in Mercopress underlining the ”interesting lesson of discovering a reality mostly unknown for Uruguayans despite the (Islands) geographic, cultural and historic proximity to Uruguay”.

• Wednesday, March 5th 2014 - 05:11 UTC

  Malvinas negotiations will take place 'sooner than later' forecasts Cristina Fernandez

  

  “Sooner than later” Argentina will be able to discuss with the UK “the Malvinas Islands sovereignty issue” as indicated by the UN resolutions, said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez during her speech to the General Assembly opening the 132th legislative period last Saturday, March first.