Tag: Falklands sovereignty

• Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

  “Britain has manipulated the principle of self-determination in the Falkland Islands”

  

  “If there is a people who are victims of colonialism, to whom the principle of self-determination can be applied, it is the Argentine people,” says Facundo D. Rodriguez (*). The following is a letter Mr. Rodriguez sent to The Guardian in reply to the piece by columnist Simon Jenkins, “Argentine firebrand president elect Javier Milei is right in one thing, British sovereignty of the Falklands must end.”

• Tuesday, November 28th 2023 - 11:05 UTC

  Argentine president elect Milei is right about one thing: British sovereignty of the Falklands must end

  

  By Simon Jenkins from The Guardian - The Conservatives’ stubborn stance on the Islands’ future is merely a refusal to let go of our last spark of military glory

• Tuesday, November 21st 2023 - 08:05 UTC

  PM Sunak, Falklands sovereignty dispute is a “resolved issue” and “will not change”

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday extended his government's congratulations to the Argentine elected president Javier Milei on his Sunday's windfall victory, but also affirmed that the dispute over the Falklands-Malvinas Islands sovereignty is a “resolved issue”.

• Thursday, October 12th 2023 - 08:43 UTC

  UK committed to upholding self-determination and responsibilities in BOTs: Gibraltar and Falklands

  

  United Kingdom statement delivered by Mungo Woodifield, UK Spokesperson to the UN, at the UN Fourth Committee on Decolonization. Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered.

• Monday, October 9th 2023 - 07:58 UTC

  Shadow Foreign Office minister McMorrin visits the Falklands stand at Labour Conference in Liverpool

  

  Among the many lawmakers and politicians who visited the Falkland Islands stand at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool was shadow Foreign Office minister Anna McMorrin who is a member of Parliament for Cardiff North since 2017.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 - 09:55 UTC

  Buenos Aires says Cleverly's trip to Falkland Islands is an “unnecessary provocation”

  

  After British Secretary James Cleverly announced Sunday that he would be traveling to the Falklands to show his support for the Islanders' self-determination, the Argentine government replied that it was an “unnecessary provocation.”

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 - 09:23 UTC

  Brazil speaking for Mercosur supports Argentina's Falklands sovereignty claims at UN debate

  

  The United Nations Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) began its general debate on decolonization and related items on Monday, with many speakers emphasizing the need to resolve the questions of the 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories, more than six decades after the General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. The Falklands/Malvinas case was speared by Brazil in representation of Mercosur, while as usual the Spanish representative criticized the Gibraltar situation.

• Wednesday, September 27th 2023 - 09:40 UTC

  UK, US support for British Falklands sovereignty but Spaniards, Germans and Italians favor Argentina

  

  How do Europeans, Americans, and even the UK feel about the sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands between Argentina and the UK? A new YouGov EuroTrack survey asked several Western European EU nations (as well as the UK and USA): Should the Falkland Islands belong to the United Kingdom or Argentina?

• Friday, September 15th 2023 - 14:25 UTC

  “Malvinas are nonnegotiable, but we must contemplate the people living in the Falklands,” candidate Milei

  

  ”The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands are Argentine, and sovereignty non-negotiable,” underlined Javier Milei, the Argentine Libertarian candidate who next month could be elected as Argentina's next president, putting an end to two decades of Kirchnerism.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2023 - 07:23 UTC

  “We will never give up our struggle for Malvinas”, foreign advisor of Sergio Massa

  

  “For us, Malvinas is and must always be an absolutely nonnegotiable and inalienable axis of Argentine foreign policy,” said Argentine ambassador in Switzerland Gustavo Martinez Pandiani, who is acting as the foreign minister of presidential candidate Sergio Massa if he were to win the coming elections next October/November.