Tag: Falkland Islands

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:40 UTC

  HMS Dauntless leaves Wednesday for routine deployment to the South Atlantic

  

  The Royal Navy announced that Portsmouth-based warship HMS Dauntless sails on Wednesday, April 4, for a six-month routine deployment to the South Atlantic, relieving HMS Montrose that is on her way back home.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:34 UTC

  Falklands’ message from Hague: “we still want to work with Argentina”

  

  In a statement entitled “Why we still want to work with Argentina”, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict, Foreign Secretary William Hague, stressed UK’s eagerness to work with Argentina on several aspects surrounding the Falkland Islands issue.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 15:39 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Reflections on April 2

  

  By John Fowler - Maybe because the days in the Falklands get noticeably shorter from now on and the onset of winter inevitable, April is nobody's favourite month here. To add to the gathering gloom at this time, hardly a year goes by without some journalist – usually Argentinean – ringing the office to ask how we are 'celebrating' the second of April, which marks the anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands in 1982.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 09:50 UTC

  Green light for Uruguayan flight to Falklands; Argentine ambassador says it’s not commercially viable

  

  The Uruguayan government through the Ministry of Defence gave the green light to a local air cargo company, Airclass which requested authorization to make a commercial flight to the Falkland Islands sometime this month.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 03:37 UTC

  The Voice of the Falklands recalls the Argentine invasion

  

  Sky News Michelle Clifford interviewed Patrick Watts, who recalls the night of the invasion 30 years ago and how he kept running the only radio station in the Falklands during the 74 days of Argentine occupation.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 02:33 UTC

  Falklands’ Defence Force marks 30th anniversary of Argentine invasion

  

  The Falkland Islands marked on Sunday the start of the South Atlantic conflict thirty years ago with a ceremony honouring local Defence Force members who were on duty the night of 01 April 1982 when the Argentine invasion.

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:58 UTC

  Thirty years after the Falklands short, victorious war

  

  The Economist latest edition includes a piece on April 2nd 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. The ensuing war Britain fought to recover them still colors UK and Argentine domestic politics

• Saturday, March 31st 2012 - 06:43 UTC

  “Falklands have a right to self determination and to be British”, no blockade is going to change that

  

  Argentina’s ever more aggressive rhetoric challenging the Falkland Islands sovereignty underlines the significance of the right to self determination, said Sukey Cameron the Falklands’ elected government representative in London.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 22:54 UTC

  Argentina reiterates ‘serious suspicions’ about UK nuclear weapons in Falklands’ region

  

  Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli reiterated Argentina’s “militarization” claims in the Falkland Islands and highlighted “serious suspicions” that Britain is using nuclear weapons in the South Atlantic region.

• Friday, March 30th 2012 - 07:25 UTC

  Close links with Latam and steadfast commitment to Falklands, announced Hague

  

  The UK is determined to strengthen relations with Latin America and equally committed to the Falkland Islands right to self-determination, said Foreign Secretary William Hague during a major foreign policy speech at banquet.