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Tag: Falklands’ self-determination

  • Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 08:01 UTC

    The Falklands/Malvinas: Brazil’s next regional headache?

    When Foreign Secretary William Hague recently visited Brazil, the Falklands/Malvinas issue was not on the agenda, according to Stuenkel

    By Oliver Stuenkel (*) - Brazil, foreign policy observers often point out, is blessed. Contrary to many other emerging powers such as China or India, it is located in a region that rarely experiences interstate tension or war. Not only can Brazil live on a relatively small defense budget, while India is the world's largest arms importer. Brazil can also dedicate considerable time and energy towards extending its global diplomatic reach without constantly being forced to deal with trouble in its neighborhood.

  • Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:10 UTC

    Why the Falklands matter

    “Falkland Islanders do not exist” and the referendum “a meeting of squatters”, is the message from Buenos Aires

    By James Kirchick (*) - Americans might wonder why they should care about the fate of a tiny set of islands closer to Antarctica than to Florida, where penguins outnumber humans by more than 300 to 1. But the fate of the Falkland Islands — whose citizens expressed a near-unanimous desire to remain part of the United Kingdom this month — will set an important precedent for the universal principle of self-determination

  • Wednesday, March 13th 2013 - 04:07 UTC

    Falkland Islands’ delegates touring US and Latinamerica to drum up support for self-determination

    MLA Mike Summers is in the US and has plans to meet State Department officials

    Following the resounding results from this weekend’s referendum Falkland Islands delegates will tour the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America to drum up support for their right to self-determination.

  • Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 14:25 UTC

    Hague calls on all countries to accept results of Falklands’ referendum and support the Islanders

    Falklands’ people have a right to determine their own futures and decide on the path they with to take, said the Foreign Secretary

    All countries should accept the results of the Falklands’ referendum and support the Islanders as they continue to develop their home and their economy, said on Tuesday Foreign Secretary William Hague following on the overwhelming weekend vote to remain as a British Overseas Territory.

  • Monday, March 11th 2013 - 04:30 UTC

    “Fantastic” Falklands’ vehicles rally in support of the referendum and UK

    MLA Gavin Short casting his vote: ‘a real exercise in democracy and human rights’   (Pic: EFE)

    Described as ‘fantastic’ despite the bad weather over 300 vehicles plus motorbikes, quads, old tractors and horse riders flying Falklands flags and Union Jacks turned out on Sunday in Stanley for a march along the sea front and the Liberation Monument in support of the two-day referendum on the Islands future.

  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:34 UTC

    C24 president insists Falklands dispute is over sovereignty, not self determination

    Ecuadorean ambassador and C24 president, Diego Morejón Pazmiño

    The UN Decolonisation Committee has not received any further requests on the Falklands/Malvinas issue, and “there is no such procedure as self-determination regarding the Islands dispute”, according to the C24 president Diego Morejón Pazmiño, standing Ecuadorean ambassador before the UN.

  • Friday, February 22nd 2013 - 15:43 UTC

    Self determination and world examples dominated political debate hosted by Falklands

    MLA Cheek: “We have much to learn from one another and many valuable contacts were made”

    The 43rd British Islands and Mediterranean Region (BIMR) Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), held in the Falkland Islands on the 12th and 13th February 2013, was described as both fascinating and provoking by delegates.

  • Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 17:57 UTC

    Argentina “again ignores the rights and wishes of the Falkland Islands people”

    MLA Sawle signs the reaction to President Cristina Fernandez open letter

    The Falkland Islands are an British Overseas Territory by choice, entirely self-governing except for defence and foreign affairs and have been settled for at least nine generations, well before Argentina even claimed what is today Tierra del Fuego, points out the Falklands’ elected government in a release-reply to the open letter from Argentine President Cristina Fernandez published on Thursday in the British press.

  • 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, June 11th 2012 - 18:54 UTC

    Principles of freedom and self determination for the Falklands remain as vital now as in 1982

    Jeremy Browne, Minister of State, Foreign Office

    Foreign Minister Jeremy Browne begins this Monday a four day visit to the Falkland Islands, the thirtieth anniversary of the conclusion of the South Atlantic conflict and in a brief message pointed out that thirty years after the conflict the Falklands’ people are being forced to defend themselves once more this time from “the policies of coercion and intimidation” by the current Argentine government.