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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 00:36 UTC

Tag: Overseas Territories

  • Wednesday, September 16th 2020 - 07:12 UTC

    Government House in the Falkland Islands features in new book of official residences

    The 175-page book brings the exclusive group of official residences together for the first time, including the mid-19th century Government House in Stanley

    A new book featuring the historic Government House in the Falkland Islands looks at the unique histories of over fifty Vice-Regal Residences of the Crown in the Commonwealth Realms, Crown Dependencies, and Overseas Territories across the world.

  • Friday, August 7th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

    Argentina prepares strong diplomatic offensive to recover Falklands' sovereignty

    Foreign minister Solá said that the recovery of full sovereignty exercise over the Malvinas is a State policy and a strong feeling of the Argentine people

    Argentina is planning to intensify its policy to claim sovereignty over the Falklands and other South Atlantic Islands with a road map that contemplates three immediate objectives, reinstate in the Organization of American States the claim, resurface the legal threat against oil companies operating in South Atlantic (Falklands) waters and put pressure on the European Union so that a post-Brexit trade agreement with the UK does not include the Falklands in the list of Overseas Territories.

  • Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

    Eight Overseas Territories, including Falklands, committed to improve corporate transparency

    Foreign Secretary Raab said “I welcome the leadership to improve corporate transparency, and the message it sends about the need to tackle illicit finance globally”

    Ministers updated Parliament on Wednesday on a major step forward by the UK’s Overseas Territories to help improve global corporate transparency. The written statement welcomes commitments from eight Overseas Territories to introduce publicly accessible registers detailing who owns the companies in their Territory.

  • Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

    Call for Evidence: UK program to support nature in British Overseas Territories

    The announcement builds on the 25 Year Environment Plan which contains a number of ambitions to improve biodiversity in the Overseas Territories

    A ten week Call of Evidence was launched by the UK Government on Friday, to gather knowledge on safeguarding nature in the UK Overseas Territories. Many of the Overseas Territories are globally significant in their ecological richness, containing over 90% of UK’s marine and terrestrial nature. They are hotspots for biodiversity with an estimated 3,300 endemic species, but they are also highly vulnerable to environmental change.

  • Wednesday, February 20th 2019 - 10:23 UTC

    British OTs Attorneys General Conference in Cayman, the last before UK leaves the EU

    This year’s gathering is one of the most important in the conference’s history, as it’s the last one before the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union

    The two-day Overseas Territories Attorneys General Conference 2019 kicked off Tuesday morning, with AGs and other delegates from 13 jurisdictions gathering in Cayman to discuss issues of mutual interest. The issues scheduled to be discussed included Brexit, anti-corruption, natural disasters, criminal justice and human rights.

  • Wednesday, February 6th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

    UK seminar for Overseas Territories on safe maritime trade and seabed mapping

    Delegates from the Overseas Territories visiting the UK Hydrographic Office

    The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) have launched a five-day capacity building seminar to help UK Overseas Territories, including the Falkland Islands, support safe maritime trade. The seminar, delivered as part of the government’s Overseas Territories Seabed Mapping Program, will focus on international regulations, with sessions on maritime safety information training, best practice governance and maritime law.

  • Monday, June 11th 2018 - 20:51 UTC

    UK Overseas Territories to host Student Conference in London

    Attendees at the 2017 conference were asked to participate in discussions on the potential impact of Brexit on Territories.

    Students from the UK Overseas Territories are being invited to submit minute-long videos about their territory and its ‘Identity’ as part of an event to be hosted at the Natural History Museum in London in November 2018. This will be the third event of its kind organised by the UK Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA), after events in late 2015 and 2017 hosted at University College London and the London Maritime Museum respectively.

  • Wednesday, February 21st 2018 - 09:09 UTC

    Oceans' plastic pollution is illegal but, how to implement international treaties and conventions?

    Numerous international and regional treaties, conventions impose binding obligations on countries to protect the oceans, their wildlife and their ecosystems

    The pollution of oceans with plastic litter, discarded nylon fishing nets and eco-toxic micro-beads is well known as one of the great scourges of the modern age ― not just entangling and choking endangered, charismatic species like sea turtles, dolphins and even great whales, but attracting long-lived organic pollutants that end up permeating the entire marine food chain, right up to the fish on our plates.

  • Thursday, September 7th 2017 - 07:14 UTC

    UK Overseas Territories have 4 million sq. km. of marine protected areas.

    Francisco Alvarez (Science & Innovation Officer, BE Santiago) and Kylie Bamford (FCO, Polar Regions Department) at the British stand in IMPAC4.

    The United Kingdom is showcasing its expertise in marine conservation and protection at the 4th International Congress of Marine Protected Areas in La Serena, Coquimbo, Chile, which extends until next 8 September.

  • Saturday, December 5th 2015 - 07:39 UTC

    London and BOTs reaffirm right to self determination and “countering hostile sovereignty claims”

    The JMC, which brings together UK ministers and leaders of BOTs including the Falkland Islands, met at Lancaster House hosted by minister Duddridge

    The United Kingdom and British Overseas Territories have agreed to work together to counter hostile sovereignty claims and defend the right to self determination, according to a communiqué issued by the Joint Ministerial Council meeting in London which also touches upon the EU Referendum, tax and banking.