Tag: Falkland Islands

• Monday, January 7th 2013 - 17:45 UTC

  Argentina accuses PM Cameron of “military threats” regarding the Falklands

  

  The Argentine Foreign Ministry rejected the recent “military threats” coming from British Prime Minister David Cameron in relation to the UK’s “illegal occupation of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands” that began 180 years ago.

• Saturday, January 5th 2013 - 05:13 UTC

  Murdoch’s The Sun tells Cristina Fernandez “HANDS OFF” the Falklands

  

  In a full page advert published exclusively in Friday’s Buenos Aires Herald, in English and Spanish, leading British tabloid The Sun admonishes President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner with a “Hands off!” from the Falkland Islands, in response to the Argentine president’s letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, published on Wednesday in several British dailies.

• Friday, January 4th 2013 - 05:29 UTC

  Former Director of three Departments awarded MBE ‘for services to Falklands’ interests’

  

  The only Falkland Islander to figure in this year’s New Year’s Honours List was recently retired Director of Mineral Resources, Phyllis Mary Rendell, who was awarded an MBE for, “services to Falkland Islands interests.”

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 22:04 UTC

  Argentine president letter to PM Cameron demanding return of Falklands, “a sign of “profound weakness”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez has been left “frustrated” by the refusal of other Latin American nations to back Argentina’s long-standing claim to the Falkland Islands, Klaus Dodds, Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London, said.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 21:51 UTC

  “The Falkland Islands remain free to choose their own futures”, FCO tells Argentina

  

  A day after Argentine President Cristina Fernández sent an open letter to be published as an advert in several UK newspapers calling on PM David Cameron’s government to re-open negotiations over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, the UK responded: “the Islanders remain free to choose their own futures.”

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 18:42 UTC

  Brief history of the Falklands since first references in the 16th century to 1841

  

  The Falkland Islands, lying about 560km off the mainland of South America, comprise two large islands, East and West Falkland, and a swarm of other islands ranging from substantial ones off the western edge of West Falkland to smaller islets and reefs scattered all along the coasts.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 17:57 UTC

  Argentina “again ignores the rights and wishes of the Falkland Islands people”

  

  The Falkland Islands are an British Overseas Territory by choice, entirely self-governing except for defence and foreign affairs and have been settled for at least nine generations, well before Argentina even claimed what is today Tierra del Fuego, points out the Falklands’ elected government in a release-reply to the open letter from Argentine President Cristina Fernandez published on Thursday in the British press.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 00:31 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez asks Cameron to return the Falklands “forcibly stripped” in 1833

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron must return the Falkland Islands to Argentina, 180 years after the territories were “forcibly stripped” from Buenos Aires, President Cristina Fernandez has claimed in UK newspaper adverts scheduled to be published on Thursday and which has been anticipated.

• Saturday, December 29th 2012 - 15:34 UTC

  The spirit and roots of the Falklands in “Our Islands, Our History”

  

  The Falkland Islands Government announced the completion of the booklet “Our Islands, Our History”. The booklet provides a succinct and accessible summary of the key aspects of the history of the Falkland Islands, and of the people whose determination and character have forged them to a democratic, prosperous and dynamic community.

• Saturday, December 29th 2012 - 06:41 UTC

  Thatcher feared Spain might go for Gibraltar after Falklands was taken by Argentina

  

  Three days after Argentina’s ruling military junta seized the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic (April 1982), the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called for an “urgent assessment” of Britain’s ability to defend Gibraltar, prompted in part by the “jubilant reaction” to the invasion in the Spanish press.