Tag: Falkland Islands

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentina begins legal actions against oil companies operating in the Falklands

  

  The Argentine Government announced on Saturday it had begun the legal proceedings put together with the AFIP tax agency against five British oil companies, accusing them of “carrying out illegal operations” in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 08:11 UTC

  UK media and opposition claim spending on Falklands’ defense is to fall

  

  The amount spent to protect the Falkland Islands is to fall according to reports in the British media however the Ministry of Defense attributes the changes to ‘accounting policy’ and insists it has the capacity to repel any Argentine aggression of the Islands.

• Thursday, March 22nd 2012 - 22:10 UTC

  Argentina warns UK and US market regulators about ‘illicit’ oil activities in the Falklands

  

  Argentina has asked British and US market regulators to probe whether oil companies that are involved in hydrocarbons exploration off the disputed Falklands/Malvinas Islands have told investors about the risks of their “illicit” drilling, the Argentine Foreign Ministry reported.

• Thursday, March 22nd 2012 - 21:23 UTC

  Peru ministers disagree and public opinion divided on HMS Montrose incident

  

  Peruvian ministers openly disagreed over the recent decision to turn back the Royal Navy’s HMS Montrose, in solidarity with Argentina and its sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Wednesday, March 21st 2012 - 21:29 UTC

  Falklands’ penguin population rising: Gentoo doubled and Rockhopper remains stable

  

  According to the most recent count in the Falklands, the number of Gentoo penguin breeding pairs has doubled when compared with the number counted during the last census in 2005. Rockhopper penguin numbers are reported to be stable.

• Wednesday, March 21st 2012 - 06:16 UTC

  HMS Montrose: Argentina thanks Humala; Peruvian opposition calls minister “incompetent and foolish”

  

  During a live press conference on Tuesday, Argentine President Cristina Fernández thanked “the Peruvian government and population” for their decision to leave without effect the scheduled, but controversial, visit of a British frigate “in support of the Argentine sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands.”

• Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 22:23 UTC

  Former councillor Cockwell receives OBE from the Queen for promoting Falklands internationally

  

  Former Falkland Islands elected Councillor Richard Cockwell last week received his OBE from Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Richard was awarded the honour for his work promoting the Falklands internationally.

• Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 22:10 UTC

  Falklands recovers community land 30 after the war, following mines’ clearance

  

  Thirty years after the end of the South Atlantic conflict, the people of the Falkland Islands will be recovering an iconic leisure ground which remained banned for three decades because of the mines planted by the retreating Argentine forces that invaded the Islands 2 April 1982.

• Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 22:01 UTC

  Poll shows 61% UK support for defending the Falklands; young voters not so sure

  

  As the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the South Atlantic conflict approaches, a new poll conducted in the UK by the newspaper The Guardian has shown that British people are largely determined to defend the islands.

• Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 21:51 UTC

  Peru denies President Humala coming UK visit; confirms May trip to Argentina

  

  Peruvian Foreign Affairs minister Rafael Roncagliolo denied President Ollanta Humala had accepted an invitation to visit London next month, Lima’s El Comercio reported Tuesday in the front page.