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Montevideo, June 10th 2026 - 05:16 UTC

Tag: Falklands referendum

  • Friday, December 21st 2012 - 04:54 UTC

    UK Government will not allow Falkland Islanders’ human rights to be ignored

    PM Cameron said the coming Falklands referendum is true democracy in action and an opportunity to send a message to the world

    British Prime Minister David Cameron delivers his Christmas message to the people of the Falkland Islands: 2012 has been a memorable year for all of us. It’s been a year of happy celebrations but a year of more sober commemorations too. In London and Stanley, we celebrated the Diamond Jubilee, marking the 60th year of Her Majesty the Queen’s reign. The genuine and deep affection for Her Majesty both here and in the Falklands reminded us of the ties that bind us together.

  • Wednesday, December 12th 2012 - 18:21 UTC

    Falklands’ referendum results will be public and presented to United Nations

    MLA Hansen, ‘the choice of independence is further away’

    The issue of the political status of the self-governed British overseas territory Falkland Islands has dominated (non-relations) and relations since the British and Argentine war in 1982 after the Argentine military government invaded the Islands, writes Alicia Dunkley-Willis from the Jamaica Observer who recently visited the Falklands.

  • Sunday, December 9th 2012 - 14:39 UTC

    Falkland Islands: “Nothing to Fear”

    Andrew Rosindell MP with members of the FIA Executive Committee and the portrait of Her Majesty which he has presented to FIA

    Falkland Islanders preparing to exercise their right to self-determination in a landmark democratic vote next March were pledged overwhelming support by the Falkland Islands Association at its annual general meeting in London on Saturday presided over by its chairman, Mr Alan Huckle, a former Governor of the Islands.

  • Saturday, December 8th 2012 - 03:54 UTC

    Mercosur summit rejects Falklands’ self-determination referendum

    Whatever the result the essence of the Malvinas question remains, said Mercosur leaders

    Presidents from Mercosur full and associate members meeting in Brasilia rejected the coming Malvinas Islands self determination referendum and anticipated that whatever the result of the ballot “it will not alter at all the essence of the Malvinas question”.

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

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

    Vice-president Boudou expressed Argentina’s satisfaction with Unasur’s support (Pic EFE)

    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

    Minister Timerman summoned Ambassador Alicia Castro to organize the strategy to implement in the UK

    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

    MLA Dick Sawle: Argentina only wishes to colonize the Falklands

    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

    The Secretary General said the UK has not violated relevant UN resolutions and called for UK/Argentina dialogue

    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 Falklands population and the ballot box hand in hand

    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 demonstration of Falklands flags in support of self determination (Photo: M. Short)

    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.