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Montevideo, March 31st 2025 - 19:21 UTC

Tag: Falklands referendum

  • Thursday, June 26th 2014 - 04:32 UTC

    Falklands' lawmakers petitioners at the UN C24 Decolonization Committee

    MLA Mike Summers at last year's C24 explained the significance of the March 2013 referendum

    Argentina will be making its case claiming sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands before the UN Special Decolonization Committee, C24, on Thursday morning. Two petitioners will support his presentation: a descendent from Luis Vernet and Falklands born Alejandro/Alexander Betts.

  • Wednesday, June 25th 2014 - 06:11 UTC

    Falkland Islands case to be addressed on Thursday at the UN C24

    Timerman and Filmus (L) are heading the Argentine delegation to the UN

    Foreign minister Hector Timerman is heading a multi-party delegation that on Thursday will make the presentation of Argentina's position on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute before the UN Decolonization Committee in New York.

  • Saturday, June 14th 2014 - 08:44 UTC

    Falklands on Liberation Day pledges to preserve 'our homeland' despite Argentina's efforts

    The 2013 referendum sent an unequivocal and powerful message to the world about our determination to steer our own future

    The Falkland Islands on Liberation Day pledged to continue developing its economy “for the benefit of our people, and for the preservation of our homeland”, despite the Argentine government's concerted efforts “to stifle our economic and political development over the last ten years”.

  • Friday, May 9th 2014 - 02:29 UTC

    UK disappointed with Uruguay's identification of Falklands as 'a latent threat'

    Ambassador Lyster-Binns “The UK is, and has always been, a good friend of Uruguay. We have strong and warm relations in different areas”

    The United Kingdom is disappointed with Uruguay's stance which identifies the Falklands/Malvinas Islands as 'a latent threat' and an element that negatively affects the South Atlantic as “as zone of peace and cooperation”. Ambassador Ben Lyster-Binns said he does not share the statement that the British Overseas Territory of the Falklands are a 'destabilizing element for the region'.

  • Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 23:07 UTC

    Falkland Islands and Crimea the new cold war

    Dr. Ivanov says Cristina has chosen to acclaim President Putin’s action in Crimea, hoping in return support the Argentine Falklands' claim.

    In an article for Penguin News, distinguished political and scientific Bulgarian author Dr Lyubomir Ivanov (*) discusses the Crimean conflict and its parallel with the Falklands.The Argentine President Cristina Kirchner praised the recent Crimean status referendum as, “one of the famous referendums of self-determination.”

  • Thursday, May 1st 2014 - 05:43 UTC

    Falklands' new governor mystified by Argentine logic and 'welcomes illumination'

    Governor Colin Roberts, maybe the Argentines regret they were not able to do the same fifty years ago with the Falklands

    Asked at a press conference on Wednesday why the Argentine Government had appeared to be against his appointment to the Falkland Islands, while also attempting to vilify him as someone who had previously opposed the right to self-determination of the inhabitants of another small island community, the newly-arrived governor, Mr Colin Roberts CVO, said that he was mystified by the logic and “would welcome illumination”.

  • Friday, April 4th 2014 - 03:05 UTC

    US Falklands' policy 'disappointing' but, one of many issues of US/UK special relationship

    The report also emphasizes the 'spirit of realism' from British PM David Cameron foreign policy

    The United States failure to recognize the right of the Falkland Islands to national self-determination is “disappointing”, reads a British House of Commons inquiry into the health of the so-called special relationship between the UK and the US. The report was released a day after the 32nd anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the South Atlantic islands (2 April 1982) and highlights London's frustration on the issue.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2014 - 07:49 UTC

    Putin rings Cristina Fernandez to praise her Falklands/Crimea double-standard argument

    Putin and Cristina Fernandez during the G20 summit in St Petersburg

    Russia’s Vladimir Putin called President Cristina Fernández and praised Argentina’s position against the “double standard” of world powers in the resolution of international conflicts. The Argentine leader appealed to the examples of Crimea and the Falkland Islands' referendum in her statements last week in France.

  • Thursday, March 20th 2014 - 07:02 UTC

    Argentina blasts double-standard in addressing Crimea and Malvinas

    ”One cannot defend territorial integrity in Crimea and not in (the case of) Malvinas”

    The Ukraine question must be settled through political negotiations and peace, President Cristina Fernández said at a press conference in Paris where she arrived this week to meet with her French counterpart Francois Hollande.

  • Tuesday, March 18th 2014 - 06:59 UTC

    Malvinas/Crimea: Cristina Fernandez blasts UK on “double standard”

    The Argentine president made the comments in Italy

    Argentine President Cristina Fernández has criticized what she dubbed a “double standard” from the United Kingdom, due to the nation condemning the Crimean referendum on union with Russia while supporting the rights of Falklands/Malvinas residents to hold a vote on their future.