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Montevideo, October 18th 2025 - 08:53 UTC

Tag: Falklands referendum

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 15:17 UTC

    Gibraltar represents a road map

    By Jose C. Moya (*) - The recent referendum’s near unanimous support for British rule seems to leave little space for negotiations. The passing of Thatcher -- who was seen as a liberator by most Islanders -- will, if anything, harden their position by reviving memories of the war. And the position of the Argentine population is equally hard, if the recent revival and political use of the issue by the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is any indication.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:37 UTC

    Cooperate and move on

    Falklanders celebrating the March 10/11 referendum

    By Fabian Bosoer and Federico Finchelstein (*) - In Argentina, the passing of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brings memories of a seemingly irresoluble conflict. The conflict stands as a metaphor of a larger history of global misunderstandings.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:31 UTC

    Confidence behind the Falklands

    (*) Klaus Dodds is a professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and the editor of The Geographical Journal.

    By Klaus Dodds (*) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s death does not represent an opportunity to resolve the long-standing sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands, or Islas Malvinas. If anything it is a reminder of how entrenched her legacy is to this particular aspect of British foreign and security policy.

  • Tuesday, April 9th 2013 - 02:10 UTC

    Falkland Islands’ delegation expected in Mexico to talk about referendum results

    MLA Elsby and Ms Ormond during their recent visit to Colombia

    Falkland Islands lawmaker Dr. Barry Elsby and young Islander Krysteen Ormond are expected this week in Mexico with a full agenda of political contacts and media interviews referred to the March referendum when Islanders by an overwhelming turnout and support, 92% and 99.8%, decided to continue as a British Overseas Territory.

  • Monday, April 8th 2013 - 01:02 UTC

    The Falkland Islands brace for oil wealth; the Norwegian experience

    The discovery “will no doubt be transformational for the Islands, increasing government revenue several times over,” says Stephen Luxton.

    By Brian Swint (Bloomberg - Businessweek) - On March 10 and 11, Falkland Islanders voted in a referendum on whether to remain under British rule. Of its 2,563 citizens, only three voted no. The victory set off howls of indignation in nearby Argentina, which fought a brief, disastrous war with Britain over the South Atlantic islands in 1982.

  • Monday, April 8th 2013 - 00:45 UTC

    Falklands’ delegation meets in Panama with keen interest in referendum results

    Dalia Bernal, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee next to MLA Barry Elsby and Ms Krysteen Ormond

    Panama City. (Special for MercoPress). As part of an on-going tour of Central America, Falkland Islands lawmaker Dr Barry Elsby and young Islander Krysteen Ormond spent four days in Panama building links and sharing the results of the Islands’ historic March 10/1 referendum.

  • Monday, April 8th 2013 - 00:40 UTC

    What do the Falkland Islands continue to tell us about territorial world views?

    Dr Dodds was accredited as an observer at the Falklands referendum

    By Klaus Dodds (*) - The last couple of weeks have been busy ones when it comes to news about the Falkland Islands. Or Islas Malvinas as Argentine and other readers might insist upon. For others, the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is the preferred naming option — highlighting as it does their continued contested status.

  • Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 23:50 UTC

    Falkland Islands’ success in Colombia: debate at leading university and speech before Congress

    Dr Elsby addressing the Colombian Congress

    A Falkland Islands delegation concluded this week a very successful visit to Colombia where they not only met with local authorities and lawmakers but also addressed the Lower House of Congress and were able to express loud and clear the Islanders’ message born out of the recent referendum in which they overwhelmingly voted to remain a British Overseas Territory.

  • Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 07:08 UTC

    Falklands’ lawmaker regrets South American leaders take for granted Argentina’s version of events

    Journalist Stacy Bragger and MLA Gavin Short (Photo Efe)

    Falklands’ lawmaker Gavin Short regretted on Tuesday in Bolivia that the governments of South America take for granted the Argentine version of the conflict between Argentina and the UK over the Islands sovereignty without ever having listened to the other side.

  • Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 03:03 UTC

    Falkland Islands’ referendum blasted by the Argentine embassy in Montevideo media

    A ploy organized by the British for the British so that the territory continues as British

    In full half page white and blue ads the Argentine embassy in Montevideo expressed on Tuesday how grateful it is to Uruguay for its support in the Malvinas Islands claim and for having been one of the first countries to reject the ‘legitimacy and publicity stunt’ of the ‘pseudo-referendum’ recently held in the Falklands.