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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 13:16 UTC

Tag: James Cleverly

  • Friday, March 3rd 2023 - 09:50 UTC

    Cleverly insists: the Falklands are British

    The Falklanders have chosen to remain a British Overseas Territory, Cleverly said after being told by Cafiero about Argentina's decision

    British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly wrote on Twitter that the Falkland “islanders have the right to decide their own future: they have chosen to remain an autonomous British Overseas Territory,” and therefore “the Falkland Islands are British.”

  • Thursday, March 2nd 2023 - 15:10 UTC

    Argentina withdraws from Foradori-Duncan Treaty

    Cafiero suggested Cleverly that Argentina and the UK sat in New York at the UN headquarters to discuss sovereignty over the Falklands and the other South Atlantic islands

    Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Thursday told his British colleague James Cleverly that the South American country was pulling out of the Foradori-Duncan agreement signed between both countries in 2016 and which was pivotal to the identification of bodies of soldiers known only to God buried in the Falkland Islands, among other improvements in bilateral ties.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 18:01 UTC

    Iran hangs alleged British spy

    Türk said the executions in Iran were nothing but “state-sanctioned killings”

    Former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Ali Reza Akbari (1997-2005) has been hanged after being found guilty of spying for the British government, it was reported in Tehran Saturday by the Mizan news service, although the exact moment of the execution was not revealed.

  • Monday, January 9th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

    UK sponsors Brazil, India, Germany and Japan as permanent members of the UN Security Council

    “As Foreign Secretary of a former imperial power, I know that in the past we succumbed to the temptation of will and appetite.”

    In December Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, gave a speech at the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office setting out his vision for UK foreign policy'. Among other issues, Foreign Secretary Cleverly pointed out to the creation and history of United Nations, at the end of WW2, praising its achievements particularly making de law – not power alone – the arbiter of relations between states.

  • Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

    Foreign Secretary at Falklands 40tth anniversary reception at Birmingham

    Foreign Secretary James Cleverly with MLA Mark Pollard at the reception

    Great day for the Falkland Islands delegation at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham with some four hundred plus people attending the 40th Anniversary reception, and as guest of honor and speaker, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Secretary, James Cleverly.

  • Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

    Ten Falklands' Governors take Sukey Cameron to lunch

    A plumage of Governors with FIGO representative Sukey Cameron MBE

    Ten Falkland Islands former Governors took Sukey Cameron MBE to lunch to mark her retirement as Falkland Islands Government Representative in London. Ms. Cameron told Penguin News she believed it was the first occasion that they have all been together.

  • Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

    Following Parliament Brexit deadlock, Mrs. May deal is back for a third attempt

    Mrs May told her Conservative lawmakers she would step down if her Brexit deal was finally passed by Parliament at the third attempt

    Efforts to persuade MPs to back Theresa May's Brexit deal will continue on Thursday, a day after she promised to quit as PM if it was approved. Her pledge brought some on-side, such as ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson.

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