Tag: Falklands referendum

• Saturday, December 1st 2012 - 07:25 UTC

  Unasur summit rejects Falklands’ referendum and wants to limit ‘vulture funds’

  

  The Union for South American Nations (Unasur) agreed to limit the actions of ‘special situation funds’ (hedge funds or ‘vulture funds’) and categorically rejected a referendum that will take in place in the Falkland Islands in March to decide the political status of the archipelago, during the summit that took place in Lima.

• Monday, November 26th 2012 - 18:46 UTC

  Argentina organizing major diplomatic Falklands “anti-referendum” campaign

  

  Argentina has started a major diplomatic campaign in an attempt to deny success to the Falkland Islands March referendum on its nationals’ political status, fearing the negative international repercussions for its sovereignty claims over the disputed Islands.

• Monday, November 26th 2012 - 07:19 UTC

  Falklands’ March 10/11 referendum, a democratic exercise of self determination

  

  The Falklands referendum on March 10/11 is designed to simply ask the people of the Islands to state clearly their wishes regarding their political status, and this is supported by democratic practice, the UN guiding principle of self determination and even by Ban Ki-moon in recent reports in the Argentine press, said lawmaker Dick Sawle.

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 21:57 UTC

  Ban Ki-moon and colonialism: people should be able to decide their own future

  

  Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said UK is not violating relevant UN resolutions referred to the Falklands’ and more specifically on colonialism, he argued that a prevailing impression is that “people living under certain conditions should have a certain level of capacities so that they can decide their own future”, be it independence or some kind of government in their territories.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2012 - 23:01 UTC

  Falklands’ proposed referendum question enters public consultation period

  

  The Falkland Islands government has opened a public consultation on the proposed referendum question on the Falklands Political Status to be held in early 2013. The proposed question was arrived at and agreed by all members of the Legislative Assembly having received expert advice on the issue.

• Friday, October 26th 2012 - 07:24 UTC

  Falklands’ 2013 referendum: determined to be masters of their future

  

  A group of Central American journalists recently visited the Falkland Islands for a week as guests of the Foreign Office together with Bruce Callow from the UK Costa Rica embassy. During Mr Callow wrote in his blog about the experience regarding important issues for the Falklands such as the referendum next March on the future of the Islands.

• Thursday, October 4th 2012 - 06:48 UTC

  Falklands’ referendum will be done under scrutiny of “international observers”

  

  The referendum to decide the political future of the Falkland Islands will be done under the scrutiny of a “whole series of international observers” come early 2013, Legislative Assembly member Dr Barry Elsby has said.

• Monday, September 17th 2012 - 18:29 UTC

  Falklands’ referendum will send strong message to world public opinion

  

  The Falkland Islands don’t expect Argentina to accept the results of the coming referendum, but will show the rest of the world, particularly South and Central America that the Islands are a democracy and have the right to self determination, said Falklands’ lawmakers in an interview with the Mexican newspaper Excelsior.

• Saturday, September 8th 2012 - 05:00 UTC

  Falklands’ 1986 referendum showed 94.5% favoured British sovereignty

  

  In the light of the referendum on the political future of the Falkland Islands scheduled for March 2013, Islander Eric Goss this week provided Penguin News with historical information relating to a Sovereignty Survey conducted in 1986 that revealed a 94.5% cent vote by Islanders in favour of British sovereignty.

• Wednesday, September 5th 2012 - 19:25 UTC

  Falklands’ delegates at the Parlamericas assembly in Panama as invited observers

  

  Politicians and opinion formers are genuinely interested to hear about the Falkland Islands and plans for the coming referendum said lawmakers from the Islands who recently participated at the Parlamericas, (Parliamentarians for the Americas) conference in Panama City (*).