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Montevideo, July 1st 2025 - 20:29 UTC

Tag: Falkland Islands

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 21:15 UTC

    “Malvinazo” out-blasted in Ushuaia by ‘Star Princess’ playing “God save the Queen”

    Pickets set on fire posters and Falklands related material with the ‘Star Princess’ in the background

    A demonstration by pickets in the Argentine Tierra del Fuego port of Ushuaia protesting the docking of the ‘Star Princess’ cruise which arrived from the Falkland Islands was contained by local security forces and the blaring of ‘God save the Queen’.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 19:07 UTC

    Young Falkland Islanders’ voice their views

    “Our Islands, Our Home”, voices and views from the new generation of Falkland Islanders

    By Harold Briley - Circuited well in advance of their historic referendum on their future, a booklet voicing the views of the post-invasion generation of Islanders is a vital part of the new Falkland Islands campaign to explain their case internationally. In this contribution to the referendum debate, MercoPress takes a more comprehensive look at their attitudes.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 00:39 UTC

    The Falklanders will speak clearly

    The Globe and Mail (*) editorial published Sunday, March - As a country that with some justice prides itself as a global beacon for democracy, the United States should abandon its equivocation over the status of the Falkland Islands and agree to throw its considerable weight behind the winner of the referendum asking Islanders whether they wish to remain a UK overseas territory.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 00:15 UTC

    Sixty international media representatives will report on the Falklands’ referendum

    Argentine academic Beatriz Sarlo is also arriving next Saturday

    The Falklands March 10/11 referendum on the political future of the Islands has attracted a surprising amount of interest from the world press with sixty television, newspaper and radio journalists arriving primarily on next Saturday’s LAN weekly flight to the Islands.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 00:09 UTC

    Argentina dismisses referendum; warns Falklands’ oil industry “unfeasible” without regional ties

    Ambassador Alicia Castro describes the referendum as a publicity stunt

    The referendum on the fate of the Falkland Islands is a publicity stunt with no legal status, Argentina's ambassador to Britain said on Monday, warning that oil exploitation around the territory was impossible without better regional ties.

  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 07:02 UTC

    Falklands’ lawmakers underline significance of casting the ballot on March10/11

    “A wonderful opportunity for everyone here to get their message, and their wishes said MLA Gavin Short

    Falkland Islands members of the Legislative Assembly have stressed the absolute need for a big turn out next March 10/11 when the Islanders will de deciding on their political status and future.

  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 06:53 UTC

    Falklands’ ballot paper will not have any serial number or identifying marks

    Several mobile teams will ensure that every Islander has the chance to vote

    The referendum about whether or not Falkland Islanders wish the Falkland Islands to maintain their current status as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom is less than a week away and the Registrar General has made some announcements on the March 10/11 world event.

  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 06:32 UTC

    Falklands’ governor tells The Sun “Argentina keeps making stuff up”

    “It’s extraordinary: you have to admire the sort of chutzpah” they make up said Governor Haywood

    Falkland Islands Governor Nigel Haywood accused Argentina of “making stuff up” in its relentless verbal assault on the UK and the Islands. With a referendum on whether the Islanders want to remain British less than a week away, Haywood vowed to keep “pushing back” against the “extraordinary” sabre-rattling, UK’s sensationalist tabloid The Sun published.

  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

    Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Another Falklands?

    Chinese patrol vessels challenging the Japanese

    By Gwynne Dyer - Chinese survey vessels go into the waters around the disputed islands and Japanese patrol ships tail them much too closely. Twice last month Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft flew into the airspace around the Japanese-controlled islands and Tokyo scrambled F-15 fighters to meet them. On the second occasion, China then sent fighters too. Can these people be serious?

  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:06 UTC

    The “entente fugale” and the French point of view on defence of the Falklands

    James Arbuthnot, head of the British Parliament’s Defence Select Committee

    Dubbed the “entente frugale” and criticised by some as a dangerous dilution of military sovereignty, Franco-British defence cooperation is nonetheless growing stronger. Shrinking budgets, a less indulgent United States and Europe’s diminishing military clout in the world have bolstered the two countries’ determination to work together.