Tag: Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 08:00 UTC

  Argentina captures a Spanish vessel for presumed illegal fishing in the Argentine Sea.

  

  The Argentine Coast Guard (the Prefectura) has captured a Spanish flagged vessel in waters of the Argentine Sea that was carrying out fishing activities presumed to be without authorisation, Coast Guard sources confirmed to EFE today.

• Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 - 18:50 UTC

  Falkland Islands Tourist Board Manager talks past successes and future plans

  

  AT the end of his first year directing the Falkland Islands Tourist Board, Managing Director Tony Mason shares the past year's accomplishments and a vision for the future.

• Friday, June 28th 2013 - 07:23 UTC

  Falklands Referendum: Voters from many countries around the world voted Yes

  

  By Professor Peter Willetts - In March, 1,513 people in the Falklands voted Yes to remaining a British Overseas Territory and only three people voted No. The Yes vote was a remarkable 99.8% of the voters on an exceptionally high turnout of 92.0%. The orthodox view that British voters chose to remain British is not enough to explain the result.

• Wednesday, June 26th 2013 - 15:24 UTC

  Preserving independence for the Falklands

  

  By Mike Summers (*)
  Published in The Washington Times
  
  In 1776, a group of American patriots wrote a letter to their king informing him they were unhappy with their political status and had plans to change it. Americans know this story well. That letter, the Declaration of Independence, formed the United States' profound belief that we all have “certain unalienable rights,” including “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 06:10 UTC

  Falklands: memories needed for a thesis on the SS Great Britain, Bristol’s main heritage attraction

  

  PHD student James Muirhead, based in Bristol’s Brunel Institute, is preparing for a trip to the Falkland Islands where he hopes to collect memories of the SS Great Britain which was abandoned there at Sparrow Cove in 1937.

• Monday, June 24th 2013 - 03:03 UTC

  Falklands: Sierra Leone says self-determination is paramount and supports sending C24 mission to the Islands

  

  Sierra Leone, member of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization maintained that the rights of the Islanders, present in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands for 180 years, should be paramount to any settlement and that self determination was the guiding principle of any resolution to the question. “There is no dispute that the people are the holders of the right to self-determination”.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Malvinas referendum has left dispute resolution “hostage in London”, claims Timerman

  

  Foreign minister Hector Timerman once again anticipated Argentina’s willingness to overcome the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands sovereignty conflict through dialogue, but unfortunately a resolution of the dispute was ‘hostage in London’ and of UK’s ‘imperial disdain’.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:26 UTC

  Falklands: “last thing we want is religion inserted in the dispute”

  

  A top Falkland Islands’ politician and Britain's UN envoy shrugged off the idea of the Pope intervening in the long-running sovereignty dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas and South Atlantic islands, as was suggested at one point by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 16:40 UTC

  C24 ‘no longer relevant’ and is ‘insulting’ to describe BOT/London relations as colonial

  

  The Decolonization Committee is no longer relevant and to describe the relation of British Overseas Territories with the UK as colonial is insulting both for the BOT and London, said a Foreign Office spokeswoman following Thursday session when the Falklands/Malvinas case was debated at the UN C24.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 16:19 UTC

  Falklands’ people happy exercising self-determination and with ‘current relationship with UK’

  

  Falkland Islands representatives told the Special Decolonization Committee that under UN resolutions non self governing territories are entitled to exercise self determination and self government and C24 does not have the responsibility to judge on that right. Likewise the Falklands’ representatives again invited C24 to visit the Islands (seventh time) but with no reply.