Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 01:52 UTC
Overwhelming turnout and YES vote in the Falklands referendum

As was anticipated 99.8% of Falkland Islanders voted to maintain the current political status of the Islands as a British Overseas Territory, it was announced late Monday evening by the local electoral authorities.
Monday, March 11th 2013 - 20:25 UTC
Uruguayan observer in Falklands’ referendum: “voting is a human right that supports freedom of expression”

“Voting is a human right and electoral observation does not validate a thing, it is a simple act of analyzing if those conditions people have proposed for the ballot event, are fully complied” said Uruguayan lawmaker Jaime Trobo currently in the Falklands for the referendum on the Islands political status and future.
Monday, March 11th 2013 - 08:20 UTC
Head of Argentine Lower House insists Falklands’ referendum has no international value

The head of Argentina’s Lower House, Julián Domínguez, assured on Sunday that the referendum being carried out in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands is “another move by the English empire to continue justifying the illegal usurpation of land”.
Monday, March 11th 2013 - 05:06 UTC
Uruguay defence minister blasts Uruguayan observers at Falklands referendum

Uruguay Minister of Defence Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro described as an “enormous shame” for the country the fact that two lawmakers from the leading opposition National party travelled to the Falklands/Malvinas to participate as observers of the Sunday/Monday referendum on the Islands political status and future.
Saturday, March 9th 2013 - 04:55 UTC
Falklands’ referendum: Argentina admits impotence and claims UK acting with ‘ill-faith’

Argentina blasted the UK over the coming Falkland Islands referendum claiming it is acting with ‘ill faith’ trying to introduce elements of distortion by changing the definition of the dispute under international law, despite all the pronouncements of the world community.
Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 21:15 UTC
“Malvinazo” out-blasted in Ushuaia by ‘Star Princess’ playing “God save the Queen”

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 - 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

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

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 - 05:43 UTC
Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Another Falklands?

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?