Tag: Falklands sovereignty

• Monday, October 28th 2024 - 16:27 UTC

  Falklands gains cross-party support during first Parliamentary drop-in sessions

  

  The Falkland Islands Government Office (FIGO) held its first-ever drop-in sessions at the UK Parliament last week, hosting over 30 MPs and Peers across two days. The sessions, held on October 22nd and 23rd, aimed to familiarize cross-party Parliamentarians, particularly newly elected members, with key issues concerning the Falkland Islands, including unregulated fishing, the region's strategic importance, and Islanders' right to self-determination.

• Thursday, October 24th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentina to sack whoever used the “Falklands” in an official document

  

  Argentina's Defense Ministry will be sacking the person responsible for using the word “Falklands” on the Argentina.gob.ar website when it should have been “Malvinas.”

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

  Milei welcomes Boris Johnson at Casa Rosada

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei Monday welcomed former UK Primer Minister Boris Johnson at Casa Rosada, after which the South American leader announced he would travel to England for a meeting with musician Mick Jagger at a date yet to be determined. Milei had already discussed rock with another exPM - Lord David Cameron - whom he met as Foreign Secretary.

• Saturday, September 28th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  The Malvinas Question triggers Ladies in Anger

  

  The South Atlantic understanding, (and by extension to the Falkland Islands), agreed this week between the Argentine foreign minister and the UK foreign secretary has triggered quite strong reactions, reflecting an atmosphere of disarray in the Argentine political system.

• Tuesday, July 2nd 2024 - 08:00 UTC

  Labour's emphatic NO to any Falklands sovereignty talks with Argentina

  

  The United Kingdom Labour's foreign affairs spokesperson David Lammy replied with an emphatic NO, when asked if a British government led by the Labour party would be prepared to sit and discuss Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty with Argentine president Javier Milei.

• Monday, July 1st 2024 - 10:42 UTC

  Team Falklands and President Milei eclectic foreign policy

  

  Team Falklands, which recently visited the Caribbean, United States, and United Nations in New York and Canada felt they came across a new attitude towards peoples' right to self-determination, mostly privately, which anyhow did not prevent overwhelming support for Argentina's colonial claim over the Falkland Islands at the C24 meeting, or a repeat of such situation at the Organization of American States, OAS, annual assembly, held in Paraguay.

• Monday, July 1st 2024 - 08:44 UTC

  Lord Ahmad, “The UK has no doubt about Falkland Islanders right to self determination”

  

  Lord Ahmad, UK Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Commonwealth, and United Nations, addressed the 54th regular session of the OAS general assembly in Asunción, Paraguay.

• Saturday, June 29th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  OAS General Assembly salutes Argentina's stance regarding Malvinas and issues Declaration of Asunción

  

  The 54th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) concluded Friday in the Paraguayan capital with the Declaration of Asunción, a document promoting the elimination of violence against women and girls, the fight against climate change, and the fight against organized crime.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Falklands tells Decolonization Committee C24, “Our voice is all that matters”

  

  By MLA Teslyn Barkman
  
  The Falklands people are not the UK officials that have administered the Islands. However, Argentina don’t accept this, and requested again to be our colonial masters at the UN C24-decolonisation committee. MLA Short and I attended the UN meeting of the “question of the Falklands” on Tuesday 18th June to point to the obvious - Our voice is all that matters.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

  “Requesting UK and Argentina talk bilaterally about Falklands future is entirely colonial,” MLA Teslyn Barkman

  

  A group of elected assembly members from the Falkland Islands presented an address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation regarding the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.