Tag: Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, March 27th 2013 - 21:52 UTC

  Falkland Islands issue gets involved in Argentina’s 150th celebration of Welsh settlers in Patagonia

  

  Argentine ambassador in London Alicia Castro revealed she has been meeting with Welsh MPs for the potential organization of the 150th anniversary of Welsh settlers in Patagonia in 2015. However Welsh sources said initial discussions broke down because the Argentine representatives were seeking people supportive of their views in the Falkland Islands dispute.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2013 - 08:04 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Argentina and UK clash at UN: no talks without the accord of Islanders

  

  Argentina's Foreign minister Hector Timerman together with Latam representatives called on UN chief Ban Ki Moon and demanded talks with the UK on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty, but Britain again refused, pointing to the Islanders' overwhelming vote this month to remain British.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2013 - 07:39 UTC

  Falklands ‘Counter Strike’ online game has ‘British terrorists’ eliminated by ‘Argentine patriots’

  

  An Argentine company has developed a map for the popular online game Counter Strike in which players fight British “terrorists” on the Falkland Islands. The setting created by Dattatec.com has clocked more than 9,000 downloads in a few hours, after “going viral”.

• Sunday, March 24th 2013 - 03:18 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ dispute: Timerman to meet UN Ban Ki Moon this week in New York

  

  Argentina this coming week will be meeting in New York with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, with the support of top regional officials to renew its long-standing demand that the UK sits to discuss with Argentina the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2013 - 10:51 UTC

  Falkland Islands becomes an issue of controversy for Argentina’s federal tax revenue office

  

  Argentina’s federal tax revenue office, AFIP said that trips to the Malvinas Islands, as well as expenses are included in the new 20% levy imposed on credit and debit card purchases in foreign countries, despite the fact the Falklands are considered Argentine territory, because of geopolitical reasons.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 14:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands Referendum, White Puffs of Smoke?

  

  By Professor Klaus Dodds & Dr Alasdair Pinkerton - The celebrations on Arch Green, outside the Falkland Islands’ Stanley Cathedral, on Monday 11 March, revealed the strength of emotion and passion that has circulated around this referendum process, ever since it was announced in June 2012.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 07:14 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ referendum an act of value, say Uruguayan Parliamentarians

  

  “I was surprised that such a small community with so few human resources to organise an electoral act did things so well, so properly, in conformity with international standards. This was a demonstration of a desire that this should be an act of value, not only in terms of its effects in the Falklands themselves, but also for the international image of a legitimate process.”

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:59 UTC

  Falklands’ invasion: documents show Conservatives were divided on how to react

  

  Senior Tories were initially sceptical about going to war over the Falkland Islands, newly released papers from Margaret Thatcher's personal archive show. A note from the whips' office following Argentina's 1982 invasion reported solid support for military action from some Conservative MPs, but others were privately hostile.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:10 UTC

  Why the Falklands matter

  

  By James Kirchick (*) - Americans might wonder why they should care about the fate of a tiny set of islands closer to Antarctica than to Florida, where penguins outnumber humans by more than 300 to 1. But the fate of the Falkland Islands — whose citizens expressed a near-unanimous desire to remain part of the United Kingdom this month — will set an important precedent for the universal principle of self-determination

• Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 08:13 UTC

  For Argentina’s tax-revenue office Afip, Malvinas are a foreign territory, most probably British

  

  Despite persistent claims before the world, and his Holiness, that the Malvinas Islands are Argentine, for the tax office in Buenos Aires in practical terms they really are a foreign country, according to the latest resolution which applies an additional fee of 20% to tickets and overseas expenditure with Argentine debit or credit cards.