Tag: Falklands sovereignty

• 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.

• Monday, September 11th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  Milei aide: Rights of Falklanders would be respected under a Libertarian gov't

  

  The rights of the Falkland Islanders would be respected should Javier Milei become Argentina's next president, Economist Diana Mondino, reportedly the candidate's pick for the Foreign Ministry, told The Telegraph in an article published during the weekend.

• Wednesday, August 9th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  UK warned EU of “Argentina's misinterpretation” on any Falklands reference

  

  The British press is revealing some of the facts surrounding the European Union/Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit, held in the third week of July in Brussels when Argentina celebrated that in the controversial final communiqué, a reference to the Falklands was changed to Malvinas Islands.

• Monday, August 7th 2023 - 10:43 UTC

  Falklands: Chinese ambassador in Buenos Aires iterates support for Argentina's claim

  

  Outgoing Chinese ambassador in Argentina, Zou Xiaoli again expressed support for the Argentine government's position regarding its sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  Argentina's Falklands claim at CELAC/EU summit, a midwinter dream

  

  The Argentine government's victory cheering and bragging about a joint declaration from two continents on the Falklands/Malvinas issue has turned out to be a brief midwinter dream. This was strongly confirmed by the British Foreign Office and the European Union.