Tag: Falkland Islands

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 22:14 UTC

  Argentina reaffirms Malvinas’ sovereignty; blasts UK reluctance to discuss sovereignty

  

  Argentina reaffirmed Monday its “imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands and considers “incomprehensible” the British negative to find a peaceful and definitive solution to the controversy as mandated by the international community.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 18:48 UTC

  WikiLeaks Falklands - US concerned about Chavez while UK worried about trade and environmentalists

  

  The American Government kept a close eye on the dispute between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands in 2010. Hitherto secret US State Department communications published by Wikileaks reveal that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton wrote to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires in early 2010, requesting analysis of the situation, which it was felt had been exacerbated by the British approval to search for oil in the seas off the islands, and by a revitalised and bitter diplomatic offensive by the government of President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner.

• Tuesday, January 4th 2011 - 14:15 UTC

  Argentine Government questions present relevance of 1999 Falklands Agreement with Britain

  

  The Argentine Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that the “provisional understandings” signed by London and Buenos Aires were in complete disuse and that the “unilateral actions of the United Kingdom” with regard to oil exploration and military exercises on the Islands constituted an “unsolveable obstacle” to the continuation and development of the “bilateral cooperation”

• Tuesday, January 4th 2011 - 07:43 UTC

  Desire Petroleun plc: Dawn Well Operational Update

  

  Desire Petroleum plc (AIM:DES) the company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin, advises that the 25/5-1 well on the Dawn/Jacinta prospect has reached a total depth of 1,697 metres in pre-rift sediments.

• Wednesday, December 29th 2010 - 20:34 UTC

  Falklands: New Governor hopes to help things happen

  

  The recently arrived new Governor in the Falkland Islands, Mr Nigel Haywood, took time recently to talk about his role in the Islands’ weekly newspaper, the Penguin News.

• Wednesday, December 29th 2010 - 20:25 UTC

  Britain should leave the United Nations Security Council suggests Argentine Ambassador

  

  In his response to the British Prime Minister’s Christmas address to the Falkland Islanders, Argentina’s Ambassador at the United Nations, Jorge Arguello, makes the strong suggestion that Britain should lose its place on the UN’s Security Council.

• Wednesday, December 29th 2010 - 07:48 UTC

  Falklands: Desire Petroleum plc - Operation Update

  

  Desire Petroleum plc (AIM:DES) the oil and gas company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin, advises that the 25/5-1 well on the Dawn/Jacinta prospect has reached a depth of 1,313metres.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2010 - 11:59 UTC

  Argentina rejects Cameron’s refusal to negotiate over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands

  

  The Argentine Government yesterday rejected recent declarations of the British Prime Minister David Cameron who said that he would not negotiate over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands despite insistent claims from the South American country.

• Friday, December 24th 2010 - 07:02 UTC

  UK ratifies full support for Falklands’ sovereignty, economic development and defence

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron ratified full and resolute British commitment to the Falkland Islands sovereignty and to the development of its economy and defence. However he also admitted that “it is in all our interests that we maintain a constructive working relationship with Argentina”.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 05:30 UTC

  BBC Brian Hanrahan, famous for his coverage of the Falklands’ war dies at 61

  

  Brian Hanrahan, one of the most famous BBC correspondents - best known for his coverage of the Falklands War - has died at the age of 61 after a short battle against cancer.