Tag: Falklands sovereignty

• Thursday, July 6th 2023 - 11:18 UTC

  “Fears over the Falklands mean we need a new Defense Plan”

  

  By Robert Fox, Defense Correspondent, Evening Standard – The (British) Army is again in the spotlight, with a wonderful Whitehall row about who is to lead it after the charismatic General Sir Patrick Sanders steps down next year as Chief of the General Staff. With the Government's rehashed Defense Command White Paper due before Parliament goes on holiday in a few weeks’ time, rumors are rife of more cuts in Britain’s military capability.

• Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:45 UTC

  Falklands: ”We do not ask you to support the UK nor Argentina” but “supporting our right”

  

  This Tuesday, 20 June two elected members from the Falkland Islands Assembly addressed the United Nations Special Committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, the so-called UN Committee of 24. The first to address the C24 was MLA Gavin Short, who criticized the aggressive attitude of Argentina towards the Falklands and mentioned several actions, which sought to undermine the Islands' economy.

• Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:27 UTC

  Argentina again calls on UK for peaceful solution to Falklands/Malvinas dispute

  

  As announced the Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero on Tuesday morning, in New York, before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization again called on the United Kingdom for bilateral negotiations with Argentina for a pacific and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands.

• Friday, June 2nd 2023 - 11:31 UTC

  Most Britons feel the Falkland Islands should remain with UK, YouGov poll

  

  People in Britain would be more upset to see Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands leave the UK than they would if Northern Ireland did, according to a new YouGov poll published in British media.

• Thursday, May 25th 2023 - 11:30 UTC

  James Cleverly in Chile: Falklands have a right to self determination and to choose their future

  

  British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, on a political and trade visit to South America, including Colombia, Chile and Brazil, said the Falkland Islands people have the right to self determination recalling that ten years ago Islanders overwhelmingly voted to remain in the British Family.

• Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  Argentine politicians invited to Cambridge University symposium on governance (Malvinas issue expected to creep in)

  

  A group of Argentine politicians, have been invited to a political symposium organized by the University of Cambridge in UK, to address among other issues governance, environment and the impact of new technologies.

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

  Declaration of Santo Domingo supports Argentina's claim over South Atlantic islands

  

  The XXVIII Ibero American Summit -the first to be held on-site after the Covid-19 pandemic- concluded Saturday with the so-called “Declaration of Santo Domingo” whereby the group reportedly supported Argentina's claim to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands together with other issues such as gender equality, energy transition, and the promotion of Spanish / Portuguese bilingualism.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  Lula promises continued support for Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands Question was not absent from the long joint cooperation declaration signed in Buenos Aires by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his host Alberto Fernandez, as pointed out in Article 81. The two leaders met in the Argentine capital in the context of the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), starting Monday.

• Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 10:28 UTC

  Argentina started the Malvinas war, but has yet to admit “we lost that war,” Lanata said

  

  “The Falklands/Malvinas war was triggered by Argentina and what we Argentines do not understand is that we lost that war. Malvinas belongs to the collective imagination of Argentina”. Statements from Argentine renowned independent journalist Jorge Lanata, recently interviewed by a Chilean television program on the current situation and prospects n the neighboring country.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 10:47 UTC

  President Fernández: British “usurpation” of Malvinas embarrassing

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday insisted that the British “usurpation” of the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands “should embarrass the whole world.”