Several events over the last weekend seem to indicate that the last September understanding between UK and Argentina regarding South Atlantic and Falkland Islands interests, agreed by Foreign Secretary David Lammy and then Foreign Affairs minister Diana Mondino is beginning to make sense.
4 commentsThis week UK made official the fact that Minister for the Armed Forces, Luke Pollard MP was in the Falkland Islands to meet service personal, members of the Islands elected government, and also attend a Remembrance Day Service.
Add your comment!Richard Hyslop, the Falkland Islands Government Representative to the UK & Europe, marked Remembrance Sunday by laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in London, paying tribute on behalf of the Falkland Islands Government and people. He joined the UK Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and other representatives from the UK Overseas Territories in honoring those who lost their lives in service to the Allied Forces during the World Wars and the Falklands War.
Add your comment!Sunday 12th November was Remembrance Sunday in the Falklands, and the occasion was commemorated with an annual service recalling the 105th anniversary of the end of the First World War, beginning with a service at Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
Busy agenda for Princess Anne on her first day of activities in the Falkland Islands, where she arrived on Thursday for a six-day visit. In a beautiful sunny Friday morning Princess Royal, marked the 40th anniversary of the Falklands' conflict with a special wreath-laying ceremony at the 1982 Liberation Memorial in Stanley.
As planned Remembrance Sunday, 13 November in the Falkland Islands was joined by a huge crowd of residents and broadcast live to the UK, since some 130 Falklands War Veterans and next of kin were in the Islands for the first time since the end of the conflict in 1982.
King Charles III led the Remembrance Sunday service at London's Cenotaph for the first time as monarch to honor Britain's war dead and in a special year, marking the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.
The Government of the Falkland Islands has announced the arrangements for Sunday 13 November 2022, Remembrance Sunday, which on this occasion will be a very special Remembrance service since it will be broadcast live from the Falkland Islands, at 13:35 UK time.
Many Veterans and relatives who lost loved ones in the Falklands war are back in the Islands, for the first time in four decades, in a commemorative flight funded by the UK Ministry of Defense. The 130 travelers will mark the conflict's fortieth anniversary Sunday 13 November at Remembrance Day in the City of Stanley.
The following arrangements have been made for Friday 11 November 2022 to enable Veterans of the Falkland Islands to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands.