Tag: Jeremy Browne

• Monday, July 17th 2017 - 04:12 UTC

  France seeking to disrupt and degrade UK's financial sector, claims City of London

  

  France is actively seeking to exploit Brexit to disrupt and degrade Britain’s lucrative financial sector, a senior City representative has warned. Former foreign office minister Jeremy Browne, who acts as the City of London’s envoy on Brexit, said the French see the British as “adversaries” in the forthcoming withdrawal negotiations.

• Saturday, September 29th 2012 - 08:56 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmakers at party conference meet Argentine ambassador Castro

  

  The Falkland Islands Government stand at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference in Brighton welcomed a number of senior party members including the leader Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro who was also attending the event.

• Monday, July 2nd 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  Jeremy Browne alerts Argentina against Falklands’ politicization of London Olympics

  

  In an interview to British newspaper Financial Times, United Kingdom’s Foreign Office Minister for South America, Jeremy Browne, alerted Argentina against the politicization of the London Olympics, set to begin on July 27th by bringing up claims over the Falklands.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 21:58 UTC

  Minister Browne inaugurates new Falklands’ Fisheries Department building

  

  The Falkland Islands new Fisheries Department building adjacent to the Agriculture Department was officially opened by the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Jeremy Browne during his recent visit to the Islands.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 19:06 UTC

  Falklands’ conflict “very much alive in the collective memory”

  

  UK Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne has spoken of his admiration for the Falkland Islands people on the thirtieth anniversary of the conclusion of the Falklands conflict.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 20:38 UTC

  UK calls on countries that prize democracy and human rights to respect Falklands’ referendum result

  

  Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne pledged UK respect for the results of the Falkland Islands referendum to be held next year, and called on all governments who prize democracy and human rights to do likewise.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 20:08 UTC

  Falklands to hold referendum in 2013 “to eliminate any possible doubts about our wishes”

  

  The Falkland Islands Government announced on Tuesday its intention to hold a referendum next year on the political status of the Falklands to clearly express Islanders views and counter Argentina’s misleading rhetoric including that “we are held hostage by the UK military”.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:25 UTC

  Argentina blasts UK arrogance and “end of war celebration” in Falklands

  

  Argentine Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli said on Monday that the United Kingdom maintains its “arrogance and haughtiness” over the Malvinas sovereignty issue as the 30th anniversary of the end of the war approaches.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 09:04 UTC

  UK reply to Argentina on Falklands/Buenos Aires flights and fisheries next week

  

  Foreign Office minister for Latin American affairs Jeremy Browne anticipated that next week there will be a “substantial reply” to Argentina’s proposal for three monthly flights between Buenos Aires and the Falklands and the resumption of negotiations over fisheries conservation in the South Atlantic, but in noy way linked to any sovereignty discussions.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 18:54 UTC

  Principles of freedom and self determination for the Falklands remain as vital now as in 1982

  

  Foreign Minister Jeremy Browne begins this Monday a four day visit to the Falkland Islands, the thirtieth anniversary of the conclusion of the South Atlantic conflict and in a brief message pointed out that thirty years after the conflict the Falklands’ people are being forced to defend themselves once more this time from “the policies of coercion and intimidation” by the current Argentine government.